Managing difference: Inclusion, performance and power

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 51-56

  Armstrong, Felicity ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 37249070732     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8705.00455     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. For a range of perspectives and discussion of performativity and education, see D. Gleeson and C. Husbands (eds), The Performing School: Managing, Teaching and Learning in a Performance Culture (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001)
2. Sally Tomlinson, Education in a Post-Welfare Society (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001), has described the notion of the failing school as 'a deliberate policy invention ... a result of the introduction of market forces, as parental choice was to be the mechanism by which schools gained or lost pupils, money or resources' (p. 75). She writes, 'Policy convergence between Conservative and Labour governments was most observable over one of the cruellest and most pointless policies developed in the wake of the Education Act - that of attacking so-called "failing schools". These were demonised individual schools, most of which were former secondary modern schools or comprehensives serving disadvantaged working class areas, whose heads, teachers and governors were held to be personally responsible for the under-performance of pupils' (p. 74)
3. DfEE, Excellence in Cities (London: Stationery Office, 1999)
4. F. Armstrong 'The Curriculum as Alchemy: School and the Struggle for Cultural Space', Curriculum Studies, 6:2 (1998), 145-60
5. DfEE, Excellence in Schools (London: Stationery Office, 1997)
6. N. Fairclough, New Labour, New Language? (London: Routledge, 2000), 39
7. Diane Taylor, 'Absent Friends', Guardian, 15 January 2002, 6-7
8. L. Barton and F. Armstrong, 'Engaging with Disabling Policies: Troubles and Contests in a Local Education Authority in England', paper presented at AERA international conference, New Orleans, April 2002