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States, markets and communities : is there room for educational leadership?

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posted on 2008-12-01, 00:00 authored by Richard BatesRichard Bates
This paper attempts a comparative analysis of classification and framing relationships as they are exemplified in the four papers presented in this Special Issue. In particular, it interrogates Bernstein's assertion that education is simply a relay for power relations external to it and examines approaches to educational leadership and administration that follow from such analysis. It is concluded that in different times and places power relationships external to education are often complex and contested, producing a variety of relays and attempts at classification and framing that serve differing interests and are articulated through policies containing significant internal contradictions. In such circumstances contingency and immediate local influence may affect the practice of educational leadership as well as offering scope for subversion, resistance, simulated consent and collective action. The possibility of a public pedagogy through which such complexities could be articulated is raised and its importance to the practice of educational leadership affirmed.

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Journal

Journal of educational administration and history

Volume

40

Issue

3

Pagination

195 - 208

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Abingdon, England

ISSN

0022-0620

eISSN

1478-7431

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2008, Taylor & Francis

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