Working in a Survival School - Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities (Hardcover)

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it was a school in 'survival mode.' Drawing on Dorothy Smith's scholarship on Institutional Ethnography, the authors document how the school operated and how its efforts to survive influenced the daily work of educators.Institutional ethnography reveals the school as a bounded space subject to a variety of competing local and translocal forces that are historical, political and economic in nature. Exploring the discursive and material effects of policy on both the work and identities of educators, the authors illustrate how the everyday experience of being an educator is shaped by marketisation and how leaders engage in stratagems to promote the school as a vehicle of educational excellence and quality to lure clientele. Building on existing scholarship in educational policy studies and New Public Management, Working in a Survival School considers how the global marketisation of education systems is experienced in one school fighting to survive. This book is of interest to educators, school leader and academics interested in policy enactment.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Lee Del Col • Garth Stahl
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-235456-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General Promotions
LSN:	1-03-235456-9
Barcode:	9781032354569

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