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A new mode of control: an actor–network theory account of effects of power and agency in establishing education policy.
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Journal of Educational Administration & History . Feb2024, Vol. 56 Issue 1, p54-68. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In this paper, I argue that power promised to England's teachers by the 2010 'Importance of Teaching' white paper has rather played out as a reformulation of methods of policymaking to more indirect modes of government control. I trace the growth of government control in English schools, promised front-line power in 2010 and a rise in non-statutory guidance after this point. Taking an actor–network theory approach to ethnographic data I then describe how a school takes up one such non-statutory educational initiative – 'Maths Mastery'. Focusing on early stages of the school's adoption of the initiative, I trace associations of actors which problematize existing practices for the teaching of maths and how the initiative is imbued with authority in relation to these. I argue that the ways in which certain actors – statutory education policy and government funding – associate with the 'optional' initiative reveals a 'back door' control of teacher agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00220620
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Educational Administration & History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174685069
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2023.2258827