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In the Field with Two Rural Primary School Head Teachers in England
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Bagley, Carl; Hillyard, Sam – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2019
The research focuses on the complexities associated with contemporary rural primary school leadership. The paper draws on in-depth ethnographic research undertaken in two contrasting English rural primary schools and their surrounding community over a period of three years and in particular the experiences and perspectives of the two head teachers…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Ethnography, Teacher Leadership
School Choice in an English Village: Living, Loyalty and Leaving
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Bagley, Carl; Hillyard, Sam – Ethnography and Education, 2015
In late modernity, the marketisation of public services has become a global policy phenomenon. In the case of schooling, this has resulted in parents discursively positioned as consumers of education making a choice between providers of education. To date the majority of research on parental choice has focused on the urban; this paper is concerned…
Descriptors: School Choice, Parent Attitudes, Elementary Schools, Social Capital
Rural Schools, Social Capital and the Big Society: A Theoretical and Empirical Exposition
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Bagley, Carl; Hillyard, Sam – British Educational Research Journal, 2014
The paper commences with a theoretical exposition of the current UK government's policy commitment to the idealised notion of the Big Society and the social capital currency underpinning its formation. The paper positions this debate in relation to the rural and adopts an ethnographically-informed methodological approach to provide an in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Social Capital, School Community Relationship
From Sure Start to Children's Centres: Capturing the Erosion of Social Capital
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Bagley, Carl – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
Discourses within the UK Labour government's welfare policy agenda have consistently featured a reformulation of programmatic governance away from both centralised hierarchies and neo-liberal markets to a social policy strategy that highlights a commitment to inclusive partnership working. Significantly, this process of meaningful social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Organizational Change, Social Capital
"I Am Much More than Just a Mum". Social Capital, Empowerment and Sure Start
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Bagley, Carl; Ackerley, Clare L. – Journal of Education Policy, 2006
An earlier article published in this journal sought to recover the views of professionals concerned with the delivery and implementation of a "Third Way" multiagency programme tackling the social exclusion of young children and their families known as Sure Start. The tentative findings suggested a "bottom-up" partnership…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Social Capital, Empowerment, Young Children
Social Exclusion, Sure Start and Organizational Social Capital: Evaluating Inter-Disciplinary Multi-Agency Working in an Education and Health Work Programme. Documents and Debates
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Bagley, Carl; Ackerley, Clare; Rattray, Julie – Journal of Education Policy, 2004
Social policy-making in the UK under the Labour government has galvanized around the issue of social exclusion, identifying young children (0-4 years) and their families living in areas of high social disadvantage to be particularly at risk. This paper attempts to recover the experiences and views of professionals concerned with the delivery and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Isolation, Social Capital, Foreign Countries