Education Policy in England 2010–2024 by Morris, Rebecca; Perry, Thomas;

Rövid leírás:

This text presents an informative overview of Conservative-led education policy over the last 14 years. The book provides a broad and detailed picture of the developing education landscape in England during this period, highlighting the transformational and sometimes ‘radical’ reforms that the country has seen.

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This text presents an informative overview of Conservative-led education policy over the last 14 years. The book provides a broad and detailed picture of the developing education landscape in England during this period, highlighting the transformational and sometimes ‘radical’ reforms that the country has seen.

Crucially, the book draws together contributions from over 40 esteemed education researchers working in the UK. The chapters showcase work from a range of experienced and early career researchers, ensuring original, thought-provoking and evidence-informed perspectives as we examine the impact of recent policy and explore how it might develop into the future. Key thematic areas covered include:

• Restructuring and governing the system


• Teaching policy, practice and professionalism


• Confronting the challenges of inclusion and inequality


• Steering and transforming the curriculum and assessment

This timely collection will interest students at all levels, researchers, education professionals and policymakers. It sheds important light on this tumultuous era for education policy, and will inform those interested in this area for years to come.

Tartalomjegyzék:

1. 2010–2024: An era of change for education policy in England

Rebecca Morris and Thomas Perry

Section I – Restructuring and Governing the System

2. School governance in England from 2010 to 2024: Academies, maintained schools and the changing roles of central and local government

Anne West, David Wolfe and Basma B. Yaghi

3. Policy gymnastics: The case of multi-academy trusts

Toby Greany, Eleanor Bernardes and Helen Angell

4. Biopolitics and academisation

Helen M. Gunter

5. Free schools in England: Standards, social justice and policy evolution

Rebecca Morris

6. The grammar school system in England and its potential impacts on educational effectiveness

Binwei Lu and Xin Shao

7. Ofsted inspection policy in England 2010–2024: Despair and complacency at both extremes of the school performance distribution

Bernardita Munoz-Chereau

Section II – Teaching Policy, Practice and Professionalism

8. Policy enactment theory in ECEC settings: A lens to better understand professional confidence?

Lewis Fogarty and Kate Hoskins

9. The importance of teaching – policy on teaching and pedagogy 2010–2024

Daniel Muijs

10. The evolution of initial teacher training and education (ITTE) in England (2010–2024)

Sarah Emmerson

11. Exploring education policy and reform in England (2010–2024) and the early career framework: The unfolding of an education ‘market’ for teacher development

Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Holly Kirkpatrick

12. Evidence-informed policy and practice: Where next?

Steve Higgins

Section III – Confronting the Challenges of Inclusion and Inequality

13. The pupil premium: A policy that changed the education landscape in England

Sally Riordan

14. Fifteen years of pupil premium policy in England

Nadia Siddiqui and Stephen Gorard

15. Tolerating the intolerable: Fundamental British values

Ümit Kemal Yıldız and Vini Lander

16. Project ‘neutrality’: Counter-Extremism, political impartiality and schooling

Reza Gholami

17. Challenging the absence of race and racism in understanding the black achievement gap in schools

Uvanney Maylor

18. The complexity of education policy for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities: Issues and prospects in England

Brahm Norwich

19. England’s education policy response to the disruption of the covid-19 pandemic

Jake Anders

Section IV – Steering and Transforming Curriculum and Assessment

20. The ecology of curriculum policy: A tale of two curricula ... and a more meaningful approach to understanding curriculum

Joseph Smith and Mark Priestley

21. Early childhood education policy in England since 2010: An overview

Michael Jopling, Sally Riordan and Lesleann Whiteman

22. Parity-of-participation? Children’s comments on the primary national curriculum and assessment in England from 2014 and into the future

Eleanore Hargreaves

23. GCSE reform in England: An overview and critical analysis of policy since 2010

Michelle Meadows and Stuart Cadwallader

24. The English Baccalaureate (EBacc): A critical review of the impact of the EBacc and associated curriculum and accountability reforms on schools, students and teachers

Emma Towers, Sharon Gewirtz, Meg Maguire and Eszter Neumann

25. The recurrence of reform in English vocational education: The case of T levels

Kevin Orr and Rachel Terry

26. Fourteen years of English education policy (2010–2024)

Thomas Perry and Rebecca Morris