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Inspection and the fabrication of professional and performative processes.
- Source :
- Journal of Education Policy; Sep2009, Vol. 24 Issue 5, p611-631, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- This paper is about the issue of the performance of inspection. Based on research conducted in an English secondary school in the years following its time under Special Measures, I discuss the idea that during an inspection the school becomes focussed around performing for inspection. I discuss performance theory here as well as notions of performativity. I set the scene with middle and senior managers' recollections of life under Special Measures, in effect the time in which they learnt to perform. I then use data from time spent in the school before and during the school's OfSTED inspection, and discuss inspection as performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02680939
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Education Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 43881015
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02680930903125129