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2. UK schools, CCTV and the Data Protection Act 1998.
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Taylor, Emmeline
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CLOSED-circuit television ,SCHOOL security ,DATA protection laws ,EDUCATION policy ,SECONDARY education ,SCHOOL administration - Abstract
The use of CCTV in schools is now commonplace in the UK. It is estimated that 85% of all UK secondary schools currently have CCTV systems in operation. The introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) (enacted in March 2000) meant that for the first time CCTV had direct legislation governing its use in the UK. This paper attempts to apply the decree to the widespread introduction of CCTV technology in schools and argues that the various elements of statute are impractical or inappropriate to educational institutions. The ill-defined and vague legislation presented in the DPA 1998 provides very little protection to the data subjects in schools (mainly pupils and teachers). In addition, the ubiquity of CCTV in schools in the UK far surpasses the enforcement capabilities and resources of the Information Commissioner's Office and as such any contravention of the scant provisions of the Act is likely to go unidentified and under-enforced. In consideration of the DPA, the paper elucidates numerous examples to suggest that a large number of schools are in contravention of the law. The paper outlines the need for bespoke policy to govern and regulate the use of CCTV in schools. Whilst the paper focuses on the case of the UK, it speaks to an international audience in concluding that the use of CCTV and surveillance technologies in schools requires greater scrutiny and regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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3. Fantasies of empowerment: mapping neoliberal discourse in the coalition government’s schools policy.
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Wright, Adam
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EDUCATIONAL change ,EDUCATION policy ,SOCIAL problems ,POSTSTRUCTURALISM ,BRITISH education system - Abstract
The swift nature of school reform enacted by the new Conservative-led coalition government has sparked debate over the future of state education in Britain. While the government rhetoric suggests a decisive break with past policies, there is evidence to suggest that these reforms constitute the next stage of a long revolution in education reform, centred around neoliberal market discourse. In the following paper, I examine the current government’s education policy discourse and, by employing techniques of post-structuralist discourse analysis, reveal the government’s attempts to rearticulate education around the logics of market, responsibilisation and self-esteem, which act to shift responsibility for social problems from the state to the individual. Furthermore, I shall argue that such rearticulation has been coupled with an ideological fantasy of ‘empowerment’, which conceals the subordination of actors to these neoliberal logics by constituting the parent and, more recently, the teacher as powerful actors who have been freed from legal and bureaucratic constraints forced upon them by central government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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4. Body policies and body pedagogies: every child matters in totally pedagogised schools?
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Evans, John and Rich, Emma
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HEALTH education administration ,STUDY & teaching of obesity ,CHILDREN'S health ,INTERTEXTUALITY ,HEALTH policy - Abstract
This paper documents how health is storied into existence by 'obesity discourse' to become part of the 'natural attitude' towards the health of individuals or populations. We draw attention to some of the major policy documentation influencing thinking on 'health' and school health education in the UK over recent years, especially, every child matters (ECM) and subsequent, related measures, for example the National Healthy Schools Programme (NHSP). We suggest that these measures have helped shape and make a 'totally pedagogised society' and 'totally pedagogised schools' in which 'health', reduced to an issue of weight, exercise and diet, becomes everyone's concern, everywhere. The analyses highlight the socio-political and psychological leanings of such policy documentation and its potential effect on the identities of children and young people when institutionalised and 'authorised' through state policies and the body pedagogies of schools and multiple other agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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5. Accountability for public expenditure under Building Schools for the Future.
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Shaoul, Jean, Stafford, Anne, and Stapleton, Pamela
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EDUCATIONAL innovations ,FREEDOM of information ,FREEDOM of speech ,PUBLIC spending - Abstract
This paper examines the disclosure and reporting of expenditure under the UK government's Building Schools for the Future programme. The study finds that there is little detailed and useful financial reporting, and the public's right to know under Freedom of Information Act 2000 is very limited. The lack of such information makes it difficult to understand where public money is going, how it is being used and the extent of future commitments and liabilities, thereby preventing an informed public debate about the financing of public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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6. Learning to work in the creative and cultural sector: new spaces, pedagogies and expertise.
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Guile, David John
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EDUCATION ,CRITICAL analysis ,LABOR market ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) ,EMPLOYMENT ,SOCIAL capital ,WORK & education - Abstract
The paper questions the link that policy-makers assume exists between qualifications and access to employment in the creative and cultural (C&C) sector. It identifies how labour market conditions in the C&C sector undermine this assumption and how the UK's policy formation process inhibits education and training (E&T) actors from countering these labour market conditions. It demonstrates how non-government agencies ('intermediary organizations') are creating new spaces to assist aspiring entrants to develop the requisite forms of 'vocational practice', 'social capital' and 'moebius strip' (i.e., entrepreneurial) expertise to enter and succeed in the sector. It concludes by identifying a number of: (a) new principles for the governance of E&T at the national level; (b) pedagogic strategies to facilitate 'horizontal' transitions into and within the C&C sector; and (c) skill formation issues for all E&T stakeholders to address. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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7. 'Building Schools for the Future': reflections on a new social architecture.
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Mahony, Pat, Hextall, Ian, and Richardson, Malcolm
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SCHOOL buildings ,NEW public management ,GOVERNMENT spending policy ,CITIZEN participation in political planning ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
The Labour Government launched the 'Building Schools for the Future' programme (BSF) in February 2003 with the aim of refurbishing or rebuilding all secondary schools in England over a 15-year period, with an anticipated budget of £45 billion. In this article, we locate BSF in a wider public policy context which has already had important implications in other sectors of public provision. The local improvement finance trusts (LIFTs) initiative within the National Health Service (NHS) is of particular relevance to this discussion both because it reflects contemporary developments within New Public Management and because it also reveals new ways of extending and developing the private finance initiative (PFI) approach to public provision. We shall also consider the purposes and 'delivery' mechanisms of BSF and identify some of the key commentaries which have been provided by parliamentary reports and other evaluations. Although still in the early stages of its implementation, the BSF is of such significance for the future shape and form of educational provision that it is important to begin the process of considering possible directions and dimensions for a research agenda which will provide a secure empirical and analytical foundation on which to base discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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