Terry Wrigley
Biographic Data
| ID | 760342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Wrigley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrigley |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGLEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1536-243X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pedagogías inclusivas
Para las escuelas que sirven a comunidades marginadas por la pobreza o las diferencias raciales / culturales / religiosas, la pedagogía implica comprender la relación entre las identidades y los "hábitats" de los niños desarrollados fuera de la escuela y su experiencia de aprendizaje escolar. Esta relación es problemática por muchas razones, que este artículo intenta explorar
Theories of global warming and their implications for education
Global warming presents the sharpest challenge to education in our time. How we address this, and adequately connect it with other global issues, will increasingly be a touchstone of educational de
Learning in a time of cholera
This article considers some theoretical resources for resistance to neoliberalised schooling and develops principles for reimagining the common school. Whilst relevant internationally, it is situated in the particular context of England, as a global epicentre of school reform – a marketised and largely privatised system where the net of surveillance and control is tightly woven from assessment data, inspections and performance pay, and where the …
The problem of reductionism in educational theory
This article seeks to examine some of the problems in current policy, pedagogy and practice through the concept of reductionism. It examines various forms which this may take involving inappropriate scientific methodologies, a diminished sense of structure (or, conversely, agency), temporal confusion and teleological/ethical reductionism, drawing on examples from natural and social sciences as well as education. It draws on Critical Realist under…
Grant Banfield, Critical realism for Marxist sociology of education
The power of ‘evidence
In response to the increasing emphasis on ‘evidence‐based teaching’, this article examines the privileging of randomised controlled trials and their statistical synthesis (meta‐analysis). It also pays particular attention to two third‐level statistical syntheses: John Hattie's Visible learning project and the EEF 's Teaching and learning toolkit . The article examines some of the technical shortcomings, philosophical implications and ideological …
John Dewey’s democracy and education
The complexities and contexts of school reform
Cambio Curricular en las Escuelas Inglesas
Este artículo presenta un resumen y análisis político de cambio curricular en las escuelas inglesas, con un enfoque particular sobre cómo se educa a los niños de la clase trabajadora. Primero se examina brevemente, el período comprendido entre 1870 (en la educación primaria obligatoria) y 1945 (escuelas secundarias para todos), y luego en mayor detalle las importantes reformas progresivas hasta la década de 1970. Por último, se examina el período…
Inspection Judgements on Urban Schools
Rethinking school effectiveness and improvement
The purpose of this article is to contribute to progressive school change by developing a more systematic critique of school effectiveness (SE) and school improvement (SI) as paradigms. Diverse examples of paradigms and paradigm change in non-educational fields are used to create a model of paradigms for application to SE and SI, and to explore the implications of their hegemony, their rootedness in a neoliberal policy environment, and their limi…
School policy in England and the USA
The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education, by Diane Ravitch, New York, Basic Books, 2010, 283pp., £11.99, ISBN 978-0-465-01491-0 Reinv
Pedagogies of transformation
This paper seeks to challenge the view that there are no alternatives today to global neo-liberalism and its manifestation within schooling systems and educational practices, particularly as high stakes testing and reductive pedagogies and curricula. The paper challenges the fast and shallow learning endemic to these practices, arguing instead for a different temporality of learning and school change. Indeed, the paper argues that there is a pres…
Ideas for changing educational systems, educational policy and schools
This paper argues the need for new ideas to assist in the creation of a new social imaginary post-neo-liberalism to frame rethought educational systems, policy and schooling. This is an attempt to reclaim progressive, democratic and social justice purposes for schooling well beyond dominant human capital renditions. While acknowledging the significance of ideas to this agenda, the paper also acknowledges that more socially just schooling systems …
Contesting Neoliberal Education
Author submitted draft version, pp. 61-68 only? IL contacted Author requesting confirmation of version (AM or Draft?) - 2019-10-15
School Improvement in a neo‐liberal world
This paper uses the concept of paradigm to examine the current state of School Improvement and its relationship to quantitative School Effectiveness studies. It argues that a significant and explicit paradigm change occurred in the early 1990s, resulting in a managerialist approach; a reductionist use of the concept culture; and an inadequate response to the challenges of poverty and under‐achievement. Some arguments are presented to show how thi…
School effectiveness’
School Effectiveness (SE), as a research paradigm and, more widely, as a set of political practices in school management and development, is examined in terms of the concept of ‘reductionism’. The article serves to systematise an ongoing critique of Effectiveness by Ball, Morley, Fielding, Slee, etc. Building upon studies by the biologist Steven Rose and colleagues of reductionism from psychology to biology, the reductionism of the Effectiveness …
Is 'School Effectiveness' Anti-Democratic
This paper explores the connections between School Effectiveness as a research paradigm and developments in policy and practice. With a particular focus on the English school system, ‘effectiveness’ is examined as a discourse which underpins the accountability regime, and in terms of its influence on the related field of School Improvement. Anti-democratic tendencies in areas such as school leadership, teacher professionalism, curriculum and peda…
Is ‘School Effectiveness’ Anti-Democratic
This paper explores the connections between School Effectiveness as a research paradigm and developments in policy and practice. With a particular focus on the English school system, ‘effectiveness’ is examined as a discourse which underpins the accountability regime, and in terms of its influence on the related field of School Improvement. Anti-democratic tendencies in areas such as school leadership, teacher professionalism, curriculum and peda…
Pedagogies of transformation
This paper seeks to challenge the view that there are no alternatives today to global neo-liberalism and its manifestation within schooling systems and educational practices, particularly as high stakes testing and reductive pedagogies and curricula. The paper challenges the fast and shallow learning endemic to these practices, arguing instead for a different temporality of learning and school change. Indeed, the paper argues that there is a pres…
The power of ‘evidence
In response to the increasing emphasis on ‘evidence‐based teaching’, this article examines the privileging of randomised controlled trials and their statistical synthesis (meta‐analysis). It also pays particular attention to two third‐level statistical syntheses: John Hattie's Visible learning project and the EEF 's Teaching and learning toolkit . The article examines some of the technical shortcomings, philosophical implications and ideological …
School effectiveness’
School Effectiveness (SE), as a research paradigm and, more widely, as a set of political practices in school management and development, is examined in terms of the concept of ‘reductionism’. The article serves to systematise an ongoing critique of Effectiveness by Ball, Morley, Fielding, Slee, etc. Building upon studies by the biologist Steven Rose and colleagues of reductionism from psychology to biology, the reductionism of the Effectiveness …
Ideas for changing educational systems, educational policy and schools
This paper argues the need for new ideas to assist in the creation of a new social imaginary post-neo-liberalism to frame rethought educational systems, policy and schooling. This is an attempt to reclaim progressive, democratic and social justice purposes for schooling well beyond dominant human capital renditions. While acknowledging the significance of ideas to this agenda, the paper also acknowledges that more socially just schooling systems …
School Improvement in a neo‐liberal world
This paper uses the concept of paradigm to examine the current state of School Improvement and its relationship to quantitative School Effectiveness studies. It argues that a significant and explicit paradigm change occurred in the early 1990s, resulting in a managerialist approach; a reductionist use of the concept culture; and an inadequate response to the challenges of poverty and under‐achievement. Some arguments are presented to show how thi…
Is ‘School Effectiveness’ Anti-Democratic
This paper explores the connections between School Effectiveness as a research paradigm and developments in policy and practice. With a particular focus on the English school system, ‘effectiveness’ is examined as a discourse which underpins the accountability regime, and in terms of its influence on the related field of School Improvement. Anti-democratic tendencies in areas such as school leadership, teacher professionalism, curriculum and peda…
Theories of global warming and their implications for education
Global warming presents the sharpest challenge to education in our time. How we address this, and adequately connect it with other global issues, will increasingly be a touchstone of educational de
The problem of reductionism in educational theory
This article seeks to examine some of the problems in current policy, pedagogy and practice through the concept of reductionism. It examines various forms which this may take involving inappropriate scientific methodologies, a diminished sense of structure (or, conversely, agency), temporal confusion and teleological/ethical reductionism, drawing on examples from natural and social sciences as well as education. It draws on Critical Realist under…
Is 'School Effectiveness' Anti-Democratic
This paper explores the connections between School Effectiveness as a research paradigm and developments in policy and practice. With a particular focus on the English school system, ‘effectiveness’ is examined as a discourse which underpins the accountability regime, and in terms of its influence on the related field of School Improvement. Anti-democratic tendencies in areas such as school leadership, teacher professionalism, curriculum and peda…
Is ‘School Effectiveness’ Anti-Democratic
This paper explores the connections between School Effectiveness as a research paradigm and developments in policy and practice. With a particular focus on the English school system, ‘effectiveness’ is examined as a discourse which underpins the accountability regime, and in terms of its influence on the related field of School Improvement. Anti-democratic tendencies in areas such as school leadership, teacher professionalism, curriculum and peda…
School effectiveness’
School Effectiveness (SE), as a research paradigm and, more widely, as a set of political practices in school management and development, is examined in terms of the concept of ‘reductionism’. The article serves to systematise an ongoing critique of Effectiveness by Ball, Morley, Fielding, Slee, etc. Building upon studies by the biologist Steven Rose and colleagues of reductionism from psychology to biology, the reductionism of the Effectiveness …
School Improvement in a neo‐liberal world
This paper uses the concept of paradigm to examine the current state of School Improvement and its relationship to quantitative School Effectiveness studies. It argues that a significant and explicit paradigm change occurred in the early 1990s, resulting in a managerialist approach; a reductionist use of the concept culture; and an inadequate response to the challenges of poverty and under‐achievement. Some arguments are presented to show how thi…
Contesting Neoliberal Education
Author submitted draft version, pp. 61-68 only? IL contacted Author requesting confirmation of version (AM or Draft?) - 2019-10-15
School policy in England and the USA
The death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education, by Diane Ravitch, New York, Basic Books, 2010, 283pp., £11.99, ISBN 978-0-465-01491-0 Reinv
Pedagogies of transformation
This paper seeks to challenge the view that there are no alternatives today to global neo-liberalism and its manifestation within schooling systems and educational practices, particularly as high stakes testing and reductive pedagogies and curricula. The paper challenges the fast and shallow learning endemic to these practices, arguing instead for a different temporality of learning and school change. Indeed, the paper argues that there is a pres…
Ideas for changing educational systems, educational policy and schools
This paper argues the need for new ideas to assist in the creation of a new social imaginary post-neo-liberalism to frame rethought educational systems, policy and schooling. This is an attempt to reclaim progressive, democratic and social justice purposes for schooling well beyond dominant human capital renditions. While acknowledging the significance of ideas to this agenda, the paper also acknowledges that more socially just schooling systems …
Rethinking school effectiveness and improvement
The purpose of this article is to contribute to progressive school change by developing a more systematic critique of school effectiveness (SE) and school improvement (SI) as paradigms. Diverse examples of paradigms and paradigm change in non-educational fields are used to create a model of paradigms for application to SE and SI, and to explore the implications of their hegemony, their rootedness in a neoliberal policy environment, and their limi…
Cambio Curricular en las Escuelas Inglesas
Este artículo presenta un resumen y análisis político de cambio curricular en las escuelas inglesas, con un enfoque particular sobre cómo se educa a los niños de la clase trabajadora. Primero se examina brevemente, el período comprendido entre 1870 (en la educación primaria obligatoria) y 1945 (escuelas secundarias para todos), y luego en mayor detalle las importantes reformas progresivas hasta la década de 1970. Por último, se examina el período…
Inspection Judgements on Urban Schools
The complexities and contexts of school reform
John Dewey’s democracy and education
Grant Banfield, Critical realism for Marxist sociology of education
The power of ‘evidence
In response to the increasing emphasis on ‘evidence‐based teaching’, this article examines the privileging of randomised controlled trials and their statistical synthesis (meta‐analysis). It also pays particular attention to two third‐level statistical syntheses: John Hattie's Visible learning project and the EEF 's Teaching and learning toolkit . The article examines some of the technical shortcomings, philosophical implications and ideological …
The problem of reductionism in educational theory
This article seeks to examine some of the problems in current policy, pedagogy and practice through the concept of reductionism. It examines various forms which this may take involving inappropriate scientific methodologies, a diminished sense of structure (or, conversely, agency), temporal confusion and teleological/ethical reductionism, drawing on examples from natural and social sciences as well as education. It draws on Critical Realist under…
Learning in a time of cholera
This article considers some theoretical resources for resistance to neoliberalised schooling and develops principles for reimagining the common school. Whilst relevant internationally, it is situated in the particular context of England, as a global epicentre of school reform – a marketised and largely privatised system where the net of surveillance and control is tightly woven from assessment data, inspections and performance pay, and where the …
Pedagogías inclusivas
Para las escuelas que sirven a comunidades marginadas por la pobreza o las diferencias raciales / culturales / religiosas, la pedagogía implica comprender la relación entre las identidades y los "hábitats" de los niños desarrollados fuera de la escuela y su experiencia de aprendizaje escolar. Esta relación es problemática por muchas razones, que este artículo intenta explorar
Theories of global warming and their implications for education
Global warming presents the sharpest challenge to education in our time. How we address this, and adequately connect it with other global issues, will increasingly be a touchstone of educational de
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Politics (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (5 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works)