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Principals’ talking back to mediatised education policies regarding school performance.
- Source :
- Journal of Education Policy; Nov2018, Vol. 33 Issue 6, p818-839, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Increasingly mediatised policy processes influence practice in schools as education becomes a site of parental anxiety and choice exacerbated by standardised national assessment and ranking of schools in the media. This paper analyses the responses to media scrutiny of six principals whose schools’ national test results were reported in the Australian press following the release of the federal Labour Government’s MySchool website in 2010. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of social fields, the concept of cross-field effects, and associated research on mediatisation, the evidence suggests that the relationships between the press, education policy and schools are highly contested, and that principals have some agency in talking back regarding their school’s reported ‘performance’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SCHOOL rankings
ANXIETY
PERFORMANCE
HISTORY of education
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02680939
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Education Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131751809
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2017.1386803