School Leadership between Community and the State

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance

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   Pages 1-41

3. Post-Historical Institutionalism

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   Pages 43-83

4. Leadership and Community

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   Pages 85-127

5. Schools, Leadership and the Law

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   Pages 129-171

6. School Leadership and the Market

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   Pages 173-202

7. Leadership and the Political State

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   Pages 203-245

8. Conclusions

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   Pages 247-256

9. Epilogue—From the Political to the Undifferentiated

   • David Lundie

   Pages 257-266

10. Back Matter

    Pages 267-306

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This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of ‘British values’. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on ‘community cohesion’ which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.

• Civic education
• PREVENT
• Schooling and security
• Trojan Horse
• Fundamental British Values
• Safeguarding
• Tolerance and education

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of ‘British values’. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on ‘community cohesion’ which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.

David Lundie is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow School of Interdisciplinary Studies, UK. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Religious Education, and co-director of the Justice, Insecurity and Fair Decision Making interdisciplinary research team at the University of Glasgow.

• School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Dumfries, UK

  David Lundie

David Lundie is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow School of Interdisciplinary Studies, UK. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Religious Education, and co-director of the Justice, Insecurity and Fair Decision Making interdisciplinary research team at the University of Glasgow.

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