Session Information
23 SES 07 B, Representing The ‘Evidence’ Of Educational Reform: School Portraits From England, Australia, Italy And Poland (Part 1)
Symposium, to be continued in Session 23 SES 07.5 B
Time:
2009-09-29
15:30-17:00
Room:
HG, HS 7
Chair:
Ken Jones
Contribution
This case study explores the ways in which policy frames some of the possibilities and problems for schools when it comes to redesign. Set in Victoria, Australia, it provides two portraitures illustrating the complexity of educational reform. It considers how two schools work with the raft of policies associated with the Blueprint for Victorian Education that seemingly encourage educational redesign with its focus on leadership capacity building, professional development, student learning and investment in creative building spaces to meet new curriculum needs but which produce serious contradictions for schools in practice. These schools are simultaneously applauded for apparent successes against the odds in being innovative while being required to form new institutional arrangements and priorities or face closure. The paper undertakes a discourse analysis of the Blueprint now in its second phase, and utilising a critical policy sociology, considers how schools identify and work with the various possibilities and problems arising from their specific contexts.
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