Working in a Survival School: Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities

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Lee Del Col Garth Stahl

Working in a Survival School

Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities

Lee Del Col, Garth Stahl

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Routledge
09 October 2024

Educational strategies & policy; Organisation & management of education; Schools

Series: Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it was a school in ‘survival mode.’

Drawing on Dorothy Smith’s scholarship on Institutional Ethnography, the authors document how the school operated and how its efforts to survive influenced the daily work of educators.

Institutional ethnography reveals the school as a bounded space subject to a variety of competing local and translocal forces that are historical, political and economic in nature. Exploring the discursive and material effects of policy on both the work and identities of educators, the authors illustrate how the everyday experience of being an educator is shaped by marketisation and how leaders engage in stratagems to promote the school as a vehicle of educational excellence and quality to lure clientele. Building on existing scholarship in educational policy studies and new public management, Working in a Survival School considers how the global marketisation of education systems is experienced in one school fighting to survive.

This book is of interest to educators, school leaders and academics interested in policy enactment.

By: Lee Del Col, Garth Stahl
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781032354576
ISBN 10: 1032354577
Series: Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 09 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. Part I. 1. Neoliberal Schooling in Glo/local contexts 2. Educational Policy in Australia 3. Institutional Ethnography 4. The Research Site: A School in ‘Survival Mode’ Part II 5. Marketising the school: policy, partnerships and culture 6. Leading in a survival school: policy tensions, mixed messages and New Public Management 7. Enacting external and internal policies: the work of teachers in tension 8. Survival and implications for educating boys 9. Reflections and conclusions. Appendix A. Appendix B

Lee Del Col is an educator and school leader in South Australia with over 15 years of experience in both primary and secondary settings. Throughout his career, he has worked in co-educational and single-sex schools within Catholic Education. Lee holds Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral awards in education, with research interests in educational policy, learner identities and school-based masculinities. Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses mainly on class disadvantage and social mobility specifically with men from working-class (and working-poor) backgrounds. His research projects encompass theoretical and empirical studies of learner identities, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, educational reform and gendered subjectivities.