Paul Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8089-3384 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Typologising formal school-to-school collaborations—education collectives—in China through the metaphor of Chinese landscape painting
In China, formal school groupings known as ‘education collectives’ have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than their structural diversity. This article seeks to address this gap by typologising education collectiv…
What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks
Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence. Adopting this perspective can provide insights into the possibility that schools are engaging unevenly in inter‐organisational networks, with som…
Elaborating Educative Leadership Through an Analysis of Anti-Educative Headteacher and Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) CEO/Executive Principal Standards in England
The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) has reduced the practice of educational leadership in those jurisdictions experiencing it to totalitarian managerialism by numbers, corporatised, privatised and performative. Such leadership is unable to address the contemporary challenges that confront educational leaders. Educative leadership has been proposed as a corrective but is conceptualised variously and inconsistently across the literature. In…
Centring micro-politics in system leadership in a multi-academy trust
System leadership has historically been used normatively as a concept to promote and privilege multi-site working across education institutions as part of a so-called self-improving system. In this article, we argue that a consequence of this definition is that any superficially ‘leaderful’ practice in such multi-site institutions is understood and legitimated through a system leadership lens. We argue further that when multi-academy trust (MAT) …
Mosque Management in Urban City
A mosque serves as a pivotal element in the structure of a Muslim community. The function of a mosque extends beyond its religious capacity as a place for worship, playing a vital role in addressing the social problems that the community faces. To explore this, the present study focuses on the strategy employed by Masjid Raya Bandung to manage and overcome various social problems around its vicinity. Utilising a descriptive-analytical approach, t…
System leadership in China? Conceptualising “Education Collectives” as formal school partnerships through the dragon boat metaphor
System leadership is increasingly and normatively used to describe administrative practices across education institutions. However, we argue that what is spreading are policy conditions encouraging multiple institutions to share governance arrangements. This requires new forms of leadership, which summons and reifies the researchable, but malleable category of “system leadership”. In this article, we analyse interview data from the constituent Pr…
Examining the Constructs of Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress in Physicians Using Factor Analyses
Background Adverse affective experiences have been well-documented in healthcare providers. Research describes them under a variety of terms, including burnout, secondary traumatic stress (STS), and compassion fatigue (CF). The present study evaluates conflicting models of STS, CF, and burnout constructs in physicians. Methods Surveys were mailed to all allopathic physicians with active Rhode Island medical licenses. Three hundred and seventy-fiv…
Successful school leadership
"Successful school leadership: international perspectives. Edited By Petros." British Journal of Educational Studies, 65(2), pp. 263–264
School Business Management
Monopolizing the Master
Book Review| August 01 2013 Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship Anesko, Michael, Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), 248 pp. Paul Armstrong Paul Armstrong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 563–564. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281927 Cite Ic…
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
Extended reviews
Alice in Jamesland
Book Review| August 01 2010 Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James Susan E. Gunter, Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009), 464 pp. Paul Armstrong Paul Armstrong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 560. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Pe…
Should cities hosting mass gatherings invest in public health surveillance and planning? Reflections from a decade of mass gatherings in Sydney, Australia
One-off mass gathering events can provide a catalyst for innovation and engagement and result in opportunities for ongoing public health planning, training and surveillance enhancements that outlasted each event
The myth of meeting needs revisited
Our primary objective in this paper is revisit a debate that was articulated 25 years ago in this journal in which it was argued that the idea of meeting needs in adult and continuing education is a myth. We extend the original analysis of need and apply it to the case of educational research. We look at the policy context, which has, in the intervening period, increasingly reflected the neo‐liberal emphasis upon accountability and measurement. T…
Randall Collins, Violence
I was recently at a local burger shop when two strangers started to argue about their place in the queue.Their tones escalated, one swore at the other, tension mounted and although I wondered whether violence might ensue, it did not.Randall Collins's newest book, Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory, asserts that only a small portion of the population is involved in violence and an even smaller percentage is actually competent at it.Collins argu…
Whatever happened to social purpose? Adult educators' stories of political commitment and change
As part of a larger research project examining the biographies of university adult educators who entered the field between 1975 and 1985, the aim of this paper is to highlight a number of themes that have emerged from this investigation around the issue of sustaining commitment to social purpose. Our objective was to find out whether those in the sample had, on entry, a commitment to social justice and change and whether they have been able to su…
Unravelling the story of a milestone text, Tales from the Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
Include me out
Social exclusion and inclusion have emerged as strong policy-leading concepts at both the national and international level in recent years. Policies on lifelong learning are themselves in part premised on the contribution education and training can make to promoting an inclusive society. It is argued that social exclusion offends against human dignity, denies people their fundamental human rights and leads, in conjunction with social and economic…
Thèses en préparation — avril 1969. Département d’histoire, Université d’Ottawa
Thèses en préparation — avril 1969. Département d’histoire, Université d’Ottawa. An article from journal Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 23, Number 2, septembre 1969, pp. 185-351), on Érudit
Include me out
Social exclusion and inclusion have emerged as strong policy-leading concepts at both the national and international level in recent years. Policies on lifelong learning are themselves in part premised on the contribution education and training can make to promoting an inclusive society. It is argued that social exclusion offends against human dignity, denies people their fundamental human rights and leads, in conjunction with social and economic…
Whatever happened to social purpose? Adult educators' stories of political commitment and change
As part of a larger research project examining the biographies of university adult educators who entered the field between 1975 and 1985, the aim of this paper is to highlight a number of themes that have emerged from this investigation around the issue of sustaining commitment to social purpose. Our objective was to find out whether those in the sample had, on entry, a commitment to social justice and change and whether they have been able to su…
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
Centring micro-politics in system leadership in a multi-academy trust
System leadership has historically been used normatively as a concept to promote and privilege multi-site working across education institutions as part of a so-called self-improving system. In this article, we argue that a consequence of this definition is that any superficially ‘leaderful’ practice in such multi-site institutions is understood and legitimated through a system leadership lens. We argue further that when multi-academy trust (MAT) …
The myth of meeting needs revisited
Our primary objective in this paper is revisit a debate that was articulated 25 years ago in this journal in which it was argued that the idea of meeting needs in adult and continuing education is a myth. We extend the original analysis of need and apply it to the case of educational research. We look at the policy context, which has, in the intervening period, increasingly reflected the neo‐liberal emphasis upon accountability and measurement. T…
Unravelling the story of a milestone text, Tales from the Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
Thèses en préparation — avril 1969. Département d’histoire, Université d’Ottawa
Thèses en préparation — avril 1969. Département d’histoire, Université d’Ottawa. An article from journal Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 23, Number 2, septembre 1969, pp. 185-351), on Érudit
Unravelling the story of a milestone text, Tales from the Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
Include me out
Social exclusion and inclusion have emerged as strong policy-leading concepts at both the national and international level in recent years. Policies on lifelong learning are themselves in part premised on the contribution education and training can make to promoting an inclusive society. It is argued that social exclusion offends against human dignity, denies people their fundamental human rights and leads, in conjunction with social and economic…
Whatever happened to social purpose? Adult educators' stories of political commitment and change
As part of a larger research project examining the biographies of university adult educators who entered the field between 1975 and 1985, the aim of this paper is to highlight a number of themes that have emerged from this investigation around the issue of sustaining commitment to social purpose. Our objective was to find out whether those in the sample had, on entry, a commitment to social justice and change and whether they have been able to su…
Randall Collins, Violence
I was recently at a local burger shop when two strangers started to argue about their place in the queue.Their tones escalated, one swore at the other, tension mounted and although I wondered whether violence might ensue, it did not.Randall Collins's newest book, Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory, asserts that only a small portion of the population is involved in violence and an even smaller percentage is actually competent at it.Collins argu…
Should cities hosting mass gatherings invest in public health surveillance and planning? Reflections from a decade of mass gatherings in Sydney, Australia
One-off mass gathering events can provide a catalyst for innovation and engagement and result in opportunities for ongoing public health planning, training and surveillance enhancements that outlasted each event
The myth of meeting needs revisited
Our primary objective in this paper is revisit a debate that was articulated 25 years ago in this journal in which it was argued that the idea of meeting needs in adult and continuing education is a myth. We extend the original analysis of need and apply it to the case of educational research. We look at the policy context, which has, in the intervening period, increasingly reflected the neo‐liberal emphasis upon accountability and measurement. T…
Extended reviews
Alice in Jamesland
Book Review| August 01 2010 Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James Susan E. Gunter, Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009), 464 pp. Paul Armstrong Paul Armstrong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 560. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Pe…
The Reinvention of Grand Theories of the Scientific/Scholarly Process
In the mid-twentieth century, the reigning understanding of the scientific process, logical positivism, disintegrated. Subsequently, there has been fragmentation in science studies (Hess 1997; Yearley 2005; Sismondo 2008; Restivo and Croissant 2008). Many have emphasized the postmodern theme that general theories or grand narratives are impossible. Despite a profusion of diversity, some sociologists and sociologically-minded philosophers of scien…
Monopolizing the Master
Book Review| August 01 2013 Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship Anesko, Michael, Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012), 248 pp. Paul Armstrong Paul Armstrong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 563–564. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281927 Cite Ic…
School Business Management
Successful school leadership
"Successful school leadership: international perspectives. Edited By Petros." British Journal of Educational Studies, 65(2), pp. 263–264
Examining the Constructs of Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Traumatic Stress in Physicians Using Factor Analyses
Background Adverse affective experiences have been well-documented in healthcare providers. Research describes them under a variety of terms, including burnout, secondary traumatic stress (STS), and compassion fatigue (CF). The present study evaluates conflicting models of STS, CF, and burnout constructs in physicians. Methods Surveys were mailed to all allopathic physicians with active Rhode Island medical licenses. Three hundred and seventy-fiv…
System leadership in China? Conceptualising “Education Collectives” as formal school partnerships through the dragon boat metaphor
System leadership is increasingly and normatively used to describe administrative practices across education institutions. However, we argue that what is spreading are policy conditions encouraging multiple institutions to share governance arrangements. This requires new forms of leadership, which summons and reifies the researchable, but malleable category of “system leadership”. In this article, we analyse interview data from the constituent Pr…
Mosque Management in Urban City
A mosque serves as a pivotal element in the structure of a Muslim community. The function of a mosque extends beyond its religious capacity as a place for worship, playing a vital role in addressing the social problems that the community faces. To explore this, the present study focuses on the strategy employed by Masjid Raya Bandung to manage and overcome various social problems around its vicinity. Utilising a descriptive-analytical approach, t…
Typologising formal school-to-school collaborations—education collectives—in China through the metaphor of Chinese landscape painting
In China, formal school groupings known as ‘education collectives’ have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than their structural diversity. This article seeks to address this gap by typologising education collectiv…
What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks
Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence. Adopting this perspective can provide insights into the possibility that schools are engaging unevenly in inter‐organisational networks, with som…
Elaborating Educative Leadership Through an Analysis of Anti-Educative Headteacher and Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) CEO/Executive Principal Standards in England
The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) has reduced the practice of educational leadership in those jurisdictions experiencing it to totalitarian managerialism by numbers, corporatised, privatised and performative. Such leadership is unable to address the contemporary challenges that confront educational leaders. Educative leadership has been proposed as a corrective but is conceptualised variously and inconsistently across the literature. In…
Centring micro-politics in system leadership in a multi-academy trust
System leadership has historically been used normatively as a concept to promote and privilege multi-site working across education institutions as part of a so-called self-improving system. In this article, we argue that a consequence of this definition is that any superficially ‘leaderful’ practice in such multi-site institutions is understood and legitimated through a system leadership lens. We argue further that when multi-academy trust (MAT) …
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (4 works)