School autonomy as ‘the way of the future’: Issues of equity, public purpose and moral leadership Keddie, Amanda 2016, School autonomy as ‘the way of the future’: Issues of equity, public purpose and moral leadership, Educational management administration and leadership, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 713-727, doi: 10.1177/1741143214559231. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title School autonomy as ‘the way of the future’: Issues of equity, public purpose and moral leadership Author(s) Keddie, Amanda Journal name Educational management administration and leadership Volume number 44 Issue number 5 Start page 713 End page 727 Total pages 15 Publisher Sage Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2016-09-01 ISSN 1741-1432 1741-1440 Keyword(s) Equity Independent Public Schools (IPS) moral leadership public purpose school autonomy Summary This paper presents interview data from research conducted in two public high schools in the state of Queensland, Australia. The research was concerned with exploring issues of equity and diversity. Both schools had recently converted to ‘independent’ status within a new state policy reform – the Independent Public Schools initiative. This reform was seen as having a significant effect on matters of equity and diversity and so became an important focus of the research. Within current accountability parameters, there were concerns expressed by key personnel at the schools about how converting to an Independent Public Schools was both enabling and constraining student equity in terms of resource distribution and school access, and undermining schools’ focus on their public purpose in relation to imposing an excessive focus on narrow external accountability measures. These concerns bring to light the significance of moral leadership within autonomous schooling environments – shaped as they are by regimes of accountability and competition that can clearly compromise student equity and delimit schooling purposes. Language eng DOI 10.1177/1741143214559231 Field of Research 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 930401 Management and Leadership of Schools/Institutions HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Sage Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30088588 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Education Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 08 Nov 2016, 11:38:30 EST Tue, 29 Nov 2016, 12:42:08 EST Wed, 30 Nov 2016, 04:00:50 EST Wed, 30 Nov 2016, 05:05:58 EST Thu, 01 Dec 2016, 08:52:04 EST Wed, 14 Dec 2016, 14:16:41 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 45 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 29 Nov 2016, 12:42:08 EST

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