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Mapping school accountability
Over the past 3 weeks I have committed a lot time to coding and analysing the data collected through my study of school governance and accountability. To date I have conducted, with the support of my...
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Wither local democracy
The following is taken from Academies and Education Reform: Governance, Leadership and Strategy by Leo, Galloway and Hearn, published in 2010. It makes me cringe to read stuff like this, when school...
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Governing Schools conference reminder
On 23 October 2014 I am organising a half-day conference to launch the findings for the project School Accountability and Stakeholder Education (SASE). After 18 months of fieldwork, 102 interviews, 50...
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School governors: Changing the way we do things
Reproduced with permission from SGOSS. Original blog posted here on 20 February 2015. School governance has gained increasing amounts of media attention as the role and responsibilities of governors...
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Foucault, Governmentality and Education Research
On Tuesday 14 April 2015 I will give a keynote at the BERA Special Interest Group (SIG) Social Theory and Education event Theory as Method: Applying Social Theory in Education Research. The event will...
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UMSGI Conference 2015 – Keynote
I have been invited to give a keynote at the 2015 University of Manchester School Governor Initiative (UMSGI) conference due to take place on 30 April at the Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester....
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Modernising School Governance
*removes heavy head from hands and begins to look outside again* Back in 2014 I signed a contract with Routledge to write a book based on findings generated through this project. Due to other writing...
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Corporate elitism in school governance?
I have a chapter that has been accepted for inclusion in a forthcoming book to be published later this year by Policy Press called Corporate Elites and the Reform of Education. The book is edited by...
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