Alan Clapham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 287916 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Clapham |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Clapham |
| FIRMA | CLAPHAM A |
| AFILIACIONES | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5066-134X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Governing International Schools
Expansion in international schools globally has created a sector that is a significant force in global education. With over 14,000 such schools worldwide, serving a student cohort standing at almost 7 million, the sector has a similar number of students to a country such as Italy. Despite their increasing presence, the governance systems of these schools are under-researched. This paper contributes to this space, by focusing on international scho…
Ofsted experiences
In this paper, we examine people’s experiences of Ofsted, the state school inspectorate in England. From thematic analysis of the 233 written submissions published by the Education Committee Parliamentary Inquiry into Ofsted, we argue that the inspectorate can lead to teachers experiencing suicidal ideation (suicidal thoughts and feelings). Our analysis suggests 229 submissions (98%) contained negative comments about Ofsted, including accounts of…
Redefining the (academic) author
This short communication presents the preliminary outcomes of an ongoing project exploring how initial teacher education research features in the UK’s 5–7 yearly national research assessment exercise, Research Excellence Framework (REF). Most recently, REF has reported in 2014 and 2021. Using a novel sampling method and analytic approach, we found that for REF2014, just 5.5% of outputs submitted by our sample of higher education institutions (HEI…
Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2024 to Spring 2025
Fieldwork at Amarna from autumn 2024 to spring 2025 involved excavation and survey in Amarna’s housing areas, including the house of the vizier Nakht, and the continuation of several post-excavation projects. The post-excavation work reported on here is the study of human skeletal materials, pottery, and matting from the non-elite cemeteries; relief fragments from the Maru-Aten; zooarchaeological samples from the house of Panehesy; and lithics an…
Choice and diversity in governance in the English alternative provision sector
Despite the continued global prevalence of discourses of educational inclusion, young people across local, national and international contexts continue to be educated outside of mainstream schools. In England, a diverse market of providers—known as alternative provision (AP)—cater for many of these young people. Unlike the mainstream school sector, where diversity of provision has been positioned as a key facilitator of parental choice and improv…
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing
To improve education performance at home, countries cross nationally policy-borrow from jurisdictions ranked highly in international league tables. This paper examines a practical example of one such instance of policy borrowing, Teaching for Mastery (TfM). Over a six year period, interviews were conducted with teachers working in primary schools in the East Midlands region of England. The focus of these interviews was to explore informants’ expe…
Undiminishing school governance
Organizational maturity can inform decision-making, build strategy and underpin development. This paper argues that ‘Governance Maturity Theory’ (GMT) can act as a developmental modality for school Governing Bodies – and offers an alternative to disciplinary mechanisms such as inspections. Evidence generated by governors, Chairs, and Governance Professionals of Boards in England were used to map the value of inspections for developing school gove…
Fighting the Machine
Museum educators increasingly face demands to evaluate the 'value' of non-formal learning (NF-L). This paper offers a unique international and multi-educator perspective on how informants from Portugal, Italy and the United Kingdom navigated these demands. Analysis of interview data highlighted that, although working in three different countries, most of these educators had experienced evaluation as accountability (and disciplinary) focused; empl…
Using marine deposits to understand terrestrial human environments
Offshore sedimentary deposits preserved in submarine canyons in southern Calabria, Italy, provide evidence for mid-Holocene (ca. 6000 BP) erosion and the transport of organic-rich floodplain sediments by flash-flood (hyperpycnal) flows from the San Pasquale River. Marine geophysical surveys (bathymetry, side-scan sonar) and diver reconnaissance revealed an unusual offshore peat deposit containing plant macrofossils representing local habitats, po…
Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018
Fieldwork at Amarna in autumn 2017 and spring 2018 included excavation at a previously uninvestigated pit-grave cemetery, the North Cliffs Cemetery, on the low desert near the North Tombs. Initial results suggest the burials here are closer in character to those at the South Tombs Cemetery (excavated 2006–13) than at the North Tombs Cemetery (excavated 2015, 2017). Several post-excavation projects continued on materials from the North and South T…
Further education sector governors as ethnographers
This paper considers how governors in the English Further Education and Skills (FE) sector examined their practice as ethnographers. The paper locates both FE governance and ethnography within the challenges of the performative and Panoptic environments facing English education. In doing so, the paper explores how the informants’ mobilisation of ethnographic methods revealed a novel lens on both governance and the role of ethnographer. Employing …
Legitimation, performativity and the tyranny of a ‘hijacked’ word
Outstanding education is a high-level policy narrative in England rehearsed by school leaders, politicians, policy-makers and inspectors alike. The ‘legitimacy’ of knowledge, performativity and discourse-based analysis are mobilised to examine outstanding. The paper explores how informants in the English state secondary education sector described and experienced outstanding. From examining policy documents and empirical data, the paper suggests t…
Enacting Informal Science Learning
Informal Science Learning (ISL) is a policy narrative of interest in the United Kingdom and abroad. This paper explores how a group of English secondary school science teachers, enacted ISL science clubs through employing the Periodic Table of Videos. It examines how these teachers ‘battled’ to enact ISL policy in performative conditions at the micro-scale, and how this battle reflected macro-scale epistemological and political considerations. Da…
Post‐fabrication and putting on a show
This paper explores inspection, performativity and fabrication within the context of two English schools. Case studies are employed to compare and contrast the inspection experiences of two teachers at different points in their career trajectories. The paper focuses on comments made by Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of the Office for Standards in Education (Of STED ), that schools were ‘putting on a show’ during inspections. Empirical evidence is …
Performativity, fabrication and trust
Based on research conducted in an English secondary school, this paper explores computer-mediated moderation as a performative tool. The Module Assessment Meeting (MAM) was the moderation approach under investigation. I mobilise ethnographic data generated by a key informant, and triangulated with that from other actors in the setting, in order to examine some of the meanings underpinning moderation within a performative environment. I argue that…
Short- and long-term foraging and foddering strategies of domesticated animals from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt
The Context of the Stone Axes Found at Portinscale and in the Vicinity of the Castlerigg Stone Circle. Neolithic Settlement Sites or a Case of Votive Offerings
Neolithic settlements are rare on the British mainland, and England in particular (Cooney 1997; Thomas 1999. 8–9 for somewhat differing comments}. One claimed site occurs at Portinscale 4 km west of the Castlerigg stone circle in the English Lake District where a number of stone axes and other artefacts were found in 1901. The finds were reported to consist of four unpolished stone axes, a number of ‘chippings of similar stone’ and of a ‘log...in…
The Mesolithic and Neolithic landscapes of Barfield Tarn and Eskmeals in the English Lake District
(2001). The Mesolithic and Neolithic landscapes of Barfield Tarn and Eskmeals in the English Lake District: some new evidence from two different wetland contexts. Journal of Wetland Archaeology: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 83-105
Processing palm fruits in the Nile Valley - biomolecular evidence from Qasr Ibrim
While palaeobotanical remains provide clear evidence for the exploitation of the date at various locations in Egypt and Nubia, it is the detection amongst lipid residues in closed form vessels of fatty acid distributions dominated by diagnostic short-chain fatty acids, i.e. C12:0 and C14:0′ that provides the first direct evidence for the processing of palm fruit in pottery vessels
Short- and long-term foraging and foddering strategies of domesticated animals from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt
Legitimation, performativity and the tyranny of a ‘hijacked’ word
Outstanding education is a high-level policy narrative in England rehearsed by school leaders, politicians, policy-makers and inspectors alike. The ‘legitimacy’ of knowledge, performativity and discourse-based analysis are mobilised to examine outstanding. The paper explores how informants in the English state secondary education sector described and experienced outstanding. From examining policy documents and empirical data, the paper suggests t…
Processing palm fruits in the Nile Valley - biomolecular evidence from Qasr Ibrim
While palaeobotanical remains provide clear evidence for the exploitation of the date at various locations in Egypt and Nubia, it is the detection amongst lipid residues in closed form vessels of fatty acid distributions dominated by diagnostic short-chain fatty acids, i.e. C12:0 and C14:0′ that provides the first direct evidence for the processing of palm fruit in pottery vessels
Performativity, fabrication and trust
Based on research conducted in an English secondary school, this paper explores computer-mediated moderation as a performative tool. The Module Assessment Meeting (MAM) was the moderation approach under investigation. I mobilise ethnographic data generated by a key informant, and triangulated with that from other actors in the setting, in order to examine some of the meanings underpinning moderation within a performative environment. I argue that…
Undiminishing school governance
Organizational maturity can inform decision-making, build strategy and underpin development. This paper argues that ‘Governance Maturity Theory’ (GMT) can act as a developmental modality for school Governing Bodies – and offers an alternative to disciplinary mechanisms such as inspections. Evidence generated by governors, Chairs, and Governance Professionals of Boards in England were used to map the value of inspections for developing school gove…
The Context of the Stone Axes Found at Portinscale and in the Vicinity of the Castlerigg Stone Circle. Neolithic Settlement Sites or a Case of Votive Offerings
Neolithic settlements are rare on the British mainland, and England in particular (Cooney 1997; Thomas 1999. 8–9 for somewhat differing comments}. One claimed site occurs at Portinscale 4 km west of the Castlerigg stone circle in the English Lake District where a number of stone axes and other artefacts were found in 1901. The finds were reported to consist of four unpolished stone axes, a number of ‘chippings of similar stone’ and of a ‘log...in…
Further education sector governors as ethnographers
This paper considers how governors in the English Further Education and Skills (FE) sector examined their practice as ethnographers. The paper locates both FE governance and ethnography within the challenges of the performative and Panoptic environments facing English education. In doing so, the paper explores how the informants’ mobilisation of ethnographic methods revealed a novel lens on both governance and the role of ethnographer. Employing …
The Mesolithic and Neolithic landscapes of Barfield Tarn and Eskmeals in the English Lake District
(2001). The Mesolithic and Neolithic landscapes of Barfield Tarn and Eskmeals in the English Lake District: some new evidence from two different wetland contexts. Journal of Wetland Archaeology: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 83-105
Processing palm fruits in the Nile Valley - biomolecular evidence from Qasr Ibrim
While palaeobotanical remains provide clear evidence for the exploitation of the date at various locations in Egypt and Nubia, it is the detection amongst lipid residues in closed form vessels of fatty acid distributions dominated by diagnostic short-chain fatty acids, i.e. C12:0 and C14:0′ that provides the first direct evidence for the processing of palm fruit in pottery vessels
The Context of the Stone Axes Found at Portinscale and in the Vicinity of the Castlerigg Stone Circle. Neolithic Settlement Sites or a Case of Votive Offerings
Neolithic settlements are rare on the British mainland, and England in particular (Cooney 1997; Thomas 1999. 8–9 for somewhat differing comments}. One claimed site occurs at Portinscale 4 km west of the Castlerigg stone circle in the English Lake District where a number of stone axes and other artefacts were found in 1901. The finds were reported to consist of four unpolished stone axes, a number of ‘chippings of similar stone’ and of a ‘log...in…
Short- and long-term foraging and foddering strategies of domesticated animals from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt
Performativity, fabrication and trust
Based on research conducted in an English secondary school, this paper explores computer-mediated moderation as a performative tool. The Module Assessment Meeting (MAM) was the moderation approach under investigation. I mobilise ethnographic data generated by a key informant, and triangulated with that from other actors in the setting, in order to examine some of the meanings underpinning moderation within a performative environment. I argue that…
Post‐fabrication and putting on a show
This paper explores inspection, performativity and fabrication within the context of two English schools. Case studies are employed to compare and contrast the inspection experiences of two teachers at different points in their career trajectories. The paper focuses on comments made by Sir Michael Wilshaw, the head of the Office for Standards in Education (Of STED ), that schools were ‘putting on a show’ during inspections. Empirical evidence is …
Further education sector governors as ethnographers
This paper considers how governors in the English Further Education and Skills (FE) sector examined their practice as ethnographers. The paper locates both FE governance and ethnography within the challenges of the performative and Panoptic environments facing English education. In doing so, the paper explores how the informants’ mobilisation of ethnographic methods revealed a novel lens on both governance and the role of ethnographer. Employing …
Legitimation, performativity and the tyranny of a ‘hijacked’ word
Outstanding education is a high-level policy narrative in England rehearsed by school leaders, politicians, policy-makers and inspectors alike. The ‘legitimacy’ of knowledge, performativity and discourse-based analysis are mobilised to examine outstanding. The paper explores how informants in the English state secondary education sector described and experienced outstanding. From examining policy documents and empirical data, the paper suggests t…
Enacting Informal Science Learning
Informal Science Learning (ISL) is a policy narrative of interest in the United Kingdom and abroad. This paper explores how a group of English secondary school science teachers, enacted ISL science clubs through employing the Periodic Table of Videos. It examines how these teachers ‘battled’ to enact ISL policy in performative conditions at the micro-scale, and how this battle reflected macro-scale epistemological and political considerations. Da…
Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2017 and Spring 2018
Fieldwork at Amarna in autumn 2017 and spring 2018 included excavation at a previously uninvestigated pit-grave cemetery, the North Cliffs Cemetery, on the low desert near the North Tombs. Initial results suggest the burials here are closer in character to those at the South Tombs Cemetery (excavated 2006–13) than at the North Tombs Cemetery (excavated 2015, 2017). Several post-excavation projects continued on materials from the North and South T…
Using marine deposits to understand terrestrial human environments
Offshore sedimentary deposits preserved in submarine canyons in southern Calabria, Italy, provide evidence for mid-Holocene (ca. 6000 BP) erosion and the transport of organic-rich floodplain sediments by flash-flood (hyperpycnal) flows from the San Pasquale River. Marine geophysical surveys (bathymetry, side-scan sonar) and diver reconnaissance revealed an unusual offshore peat deposit containing plant macrofossils representing local habitats, po…
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing
To improve education performance at home, countries cross nationally policy-borrow from jurisdictions ranked highly in international league tables. This paper examines a practical example of one such instance of policy borrowing, Teaching for Mastery (TfM). Over a six year period, interviews were conducted with teachers working in primary schools in the East Midlands region of England. The focus of these interviews was to explore informants’ expe…
Undiminishing school governance
Organizational maturity can inform decision-making, build strategy and underpin development. This paper argues that ‘Governance Maturity Theory’ (GMT) can act as a developmental modality for school Governing Bodies – and offers an alternative to disciplinary mechanisms such as inspections. Evidence generated by governors, Chairs, and Governance Professionals of Boards in England were used to map the value of inspections for developing school gove…
Fighting the Machine
Museum educators increasingly face demands to evaluate the 'value' of non-formal learning (NF-L). This paper offers a unique international and multi-educator perspective on how informants from Portugal, Italy and the United Kingdom navigated these demands. Analysis of interview data highlighted that, although working in three different countries, most of these educators had experienced evaluation as accountability (and disciplinary) focused; empl…
Redefining the (academic) author
This short communication presents the preliminary outcomes of an ongoing project exploring how initial teacher education research features in the UK’s 5–7 yearly national research assessment exercise, Research Excellence Framework (REF). Most recently, REF has reported in 2014 and 2021. Using a novel sampling method and analytic approach, we found that for REF2014, just 5.5% of outputs submitted by our sample of higher education institutions (HEI…
Tell el-Amarna, Autumn 2024 to Spring 2025
Fieldwork at Amarna from autumn 2024 to spring 2025 involved excavation and survey in Amarna’s housing areas, including the house of the vizier Nakht, and the continuation of several post-excavation projects. The post-excavation work reported on here is the study of human skeletal materials, pottery, and matting from the non-elite cemeteries; relief fragments from the Maru-Aten; zooarchaeological samples from the house of Panehesy; and lithics an…
Choice and diversity in governance in the English alternative provision sector
Despite the continued global prevalence of discourses of educational inclusion, young people across local, national and international contexts continue to be educated outside of mainstream schools. In England, a diverse market of providers—known as alternative provision (AP)—cater for many of these young people. Unlike the mainstream school sector, where diversity of provision has been positioned as a key facilitator of parental choice and improv…
Governing International Schools
Expansion in international schools globally has created a sector that is a significant force in global education. With over 14,000 such schools worldwide, serving a student cohort standing at almost 7 million, the sector has a similar number of students to a country such as Italy. Despite their increasing presence, the governance systems of these schools are under-researched. This paper contributes to this space, by focusing on international scho…
Ofsted experiences
In this paper, we examine people’s experiences of Ofsted, the state school inspectorate in England. From thematic analysis of the 233 written submissions published by the Education Committee Parliamentary Inquiry into Ofsted, we argue that the inspectorate can lead to teachers experiencing suicidal ideation (suicidal thoughts and feelings). Our analysis suggests 229 submissions (98%) contained negative comments about Ofsted, including accounts of…
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