Colman, A. School leadership, school inspection and the micropolitics of compliance and resistance: Examining the hyper-enactment of policy in an area of deprivation (2020) Educational Management Administration and Leadership DOI: 10.1177/1741143219898479 Abstract This paper examines the influence of intense scrutiny from Ofsted on school leadership and policy enactment. Data was collected in a coastal area …
Eva Hartmann, Janja Komljenovic, The employability dispositif, or the re-articulation of the relationship between universities and their environment (2020) Journal of Education Policy https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2020.1725983 Abstract This paper focuses on how universities are increasingly made responsible for the employment of their students. Drawing on Governmentality Studies, we suggest framing this pressure as an employability dispositif. We …
Beattie, L., Educational leadership: Producing docile bodies? A Foucauldian perspective on Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly. 2020; 74: 98– 110. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12218 Open access Abstract The aim of this paper is to contribute to a long‐standing critical tradition in the educational leadership literature through an analytical examination of the idiosyncrasies of leadership in Higher Education institutions …
Elizabeth J. Done, Helen Knowler, Painful invisibilities: Roll management or ‘off-rolling’ and professional identity (2020) British Educational Research Journal, 46 (3), pp. 516-531. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3591 Abstract ‘Off-rolling’ is widely defined as the illegal removal of students from a school roll, unlike permanent exclusion, which involves sanctioned formal procedures. It is a practice that brings very different …
Young, H., Jerome, L. Student voice in higher education: Opening the loop (2020) British Educational Research Journal, 46 (3), pp. 688-705. DOI: 10.1002/berj.3603 Abstract UK national policy and the practices of university course boards tend to reduce understandings of ‘student voice’ to a feedback loop. In this loop, students express feedback, the university takes this …
Rantala, A., Heikkilä, M. Agency, guidance and gender–interrelated aspects of early childhood education settings (2020) Education 3-13, 48 (4), pp. 483-493. DOI: 10.1080/03004279.2019.1620305 Abstract Social interaction is one of the many things what preschool life is about, and how social life is constituted is of importance to understand. In early childhood education settings, children are …
Anne E. Martin, Teresa R. Fisher-Ari, and Kara M. Kavanagh, “Our Schools Turned Into Literal Police States.”: Disciplinary Power and Novice Teachers Enduring a Cheating Scandal (2020) Educational Studies – AESA, 56 (3), pp. 306-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2020.1745809 Abstract The voices of teachers experiencing and reacting to highly-publicized testing scandals are rarely heard, despite high-levels of criticism …
Joe Christopher, Sarath Ukwatte, Prem Yapa, How do government policies influence the governance paradigm of Australian public universities?: An historical analysis (2020) Journal of Management History, 26 (2), pp. 231-248. DOI: 10.1108/JMH-04-2019-0029 Abstract Purpose: This study aims to examine how government policies have influenced the governance paradigm of Australian public universities from a historical perspective. …
Farzaneh Haghighi, Heterotopic sites of knowledge production: Notes on an architectural analysis of lecture halls, Cultural Dynamics, February 14, 2020 DOI: 10.1177/0921374020907111 Abstract This article is concerned with the spatial analysis of lecture theaters in higher education institutions and it draws upon two concepts developed by Michel Foucault during the 1970s—heterotopia and the will to …
Kyungmee Lee (2020) Openness and innovation in online higher education: a historical review of the two discourses, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, Published online: 14 Jan 2020 DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2020.1713737 ABSTRACT This article tackles a critical question:‘to what extent can online higher education (HE) be open and innovative at the same time?’ …
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