Just 'good and bad news'? Disciplinary imaginaries of head teachers in Australian and English print media Blackmore, Jill and Thomson, Pat 2004, Just 'good and bad news'? Disciplinary imaginaries of head teachers in Australian and English print media, Journal of education policy, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 301-320, doi: 10.1080/0268093042000207638. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Just 'good and bad news'? Disciplinary imaginaries of head teachers in Australian and English print media Author(s) Blackmore, Jill orcid.org/0000-0002-1049-2788 Thomson, Pat Journal name Journal of education policy Volume number 19 Issue number 3 Start page 301 End page 320 Publisher Routledge Place of publication Abingdon, England Publication date 2004-05 ISSN 0268-0939 1464-5106 Keyword(s) media policy headteachers leadership Summary Australian and English print media are actively engaged in producing reports that claim to find the 'best schools', the 'real state of education', and 'star head teachers'. This article considers the production of knights and dames, maverick heads and struggling schools. It argues that some of these stories are clearly the products of departmental press bureau activities and policy agendas. It shows, however, that even those stories intended to critique government policy support paradoxically a notion of the singular importance of the headship and the virtues of heroic leadership. It is suggested that the simulacrum of the heroic head works as a normative disciplinary device for performative and market practices and is singularly off-putting to both serving and aspirant school leaders. Language eng DOI 10.1080/0268093042000207638 Field of Research 130305 Educational Counselling Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2004, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30002339 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) 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 Thu, 11 Dec 2008, 08:28:20 EST Fri, 21 May 2010, 12:05:36 EST Fri, 21 May 2010, 12:06:55 EST Mon, 24 May 2010, 08:21:15 EST Mon, 24 May 2010, 08:23:49 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 22:08:24 EST Wed, 14 Jan 2015, 08:08:17 EST Mon, 29 Jun 2015, 14:04:49 EST Wed, 17 Aug 2016, 08:39:21 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 08:52:21 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 56 times in TR Web of Science Cited 58 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1122 Abstract Views, 80 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:21:59 EST