Mike Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Elite Discourse and Institutional Innovation
This paper focuses on the strategic role of elites in managing institutional and organizational change within English public services, framed by the wider ideological and political context of neo-liberalism and its pervasive impact on the social and economic order over recent decades. It also highlights the unintended consequences of this elite-driven programme of institutional reform as realized in the emergence of hybridized regimes of ‘polyarc…
Developing research expertise in applied linguistics
This paper explores the ambiguous nature of applied linguistics as a field of enquiry, to contextualise the interpretation of data from an empirical study into how research expertise in applied linguistics is conceptualised, and how it develops during an academic’s career. Key findings from the study include the importance of being willing to work at the boundaries of one’s knowledge, the capacity to communicate one’s ideas effectively, and the r…
A Narco History
"A Narco History, written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to bring it to an end."--Page 4 of cover
Organisational studies in an era of educational reform
One social science base for educational administration proposed in the Baron and Taylor collection was organisation theory. In the event this expectation turned out to be over-optimistic. Organisation theory was much too contested and insufficiently pragmatic for the British taste. Major developments in this field occurred mainly in the USA. Nevertheless, the more general approach of organisational studies continues to enhance our understanding o…
The Dynamics of Irony in Organizational Change
The potential of an ironic perspective for understanding public service change is portrayed through a re‐analysis of data on a merger between two English primary sector schools, an extreme change involving organizational termination alongside phoenix‐like emergence. The ironic perspective focuses on synchronic dissonance and diachronic divergence in meaning underlying verbal and situational forms of irony respectively, endemic sources of organiza…
Developing Leadership Capacity in English Secondary Schools and Universities
Government responses to globalisation include developing educational leaders as reformers for workforce competitiveness in the knowledge economy. Qualitative research tracked interventions involving national leadership development bodies to acculturate leaders in secondary schools and universities. Acculturating leaders as reformers was mediated through interaction with professional cultures valuing autonomy. Yet mediation supported the governmen…
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Contextualizing Leader Dynamics
A generic conceptualization is developed of the evolutionary relationship between leader activity and context, informed by structuration theory. It is argued that theoretical development to date has underplayed the extent of leaders’ attempted — and more or less successful — manipulation of contextual factors, within structural parameters that bound their agency. A heuristic model of leaders’ interaction with their context is articulated. This li…
Orchestrating Emergent Change
The metaphor of ‘orchestration’ is applied to an emergent change whereby developing different versions of a resource to solve local problems with managing hospitalized patient care in the USA became conceived as a nationwide innovation. A pluralistic framework incorporates Abbott’s conception of a system of professions, a cultural and political perspective on interaction and the notion of ‘orchestration’ which is distinguished from leadership and…
Educational Myth-Making With “Due Accuracy and Impartiality”? A Current Affairs TV Episode in the United Kingdom
The mass media contribution to education politics is explored through the application of a pluralistic theoretical framework to evidence connected with the making of an episode of a U.K. current affairs television program. The episode addressed a politically contentious educational issue but proved controversial in itself. Several sources complained that the program team had failed to operate with “due accuracy and impartiality” required in law a…
Beyond Metaphors of Management
In the UK and elsewhere management has become a root metaphor. Educational practitioners must now acquire competence in management discourse. Yet education and management are different social processes. They interpenetrate since much education occurs in schools, which have to be managed. But teaching is not management. This paper identifies how metaphors of management have been absorbed into political discourse and makes a case for metaphoric re-…
Another bad day at the training ground
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic. We therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners. Second, we tentatively offer the alternative metaphor of ‘orchestration’, derived from research on the management of complex change, …
The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
The Man Who Stayed Behind
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China's highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.Bo…
Gotham
Combining Cultural and Political Perspectives
American Metropolis
Journal Article American Metropolis: A History of New York City. By George J. Lankevich. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5148-2 and Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiv, 1,383 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511634-8 Get access Edward K. Spann Edward K. Spann Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana Search for oth…
A Counter‐policy to Subvert Education Reform? Collaboration among Schools and Colleges in a Competitive Climate
The concept of a ‘counter‐policy’ is articulated as a heuristic device for grasping the process of mediation whereby implementation of national policies may stimulate resistance and co‐optation at other education system levels. The discussion is illustrated through exploratory research into initiatives promoting collaboration among English schools and colleges, some enjoying local education authority (LEA) support. The term counter‐policy is defi…
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
Journal Article Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. By Mike Wallace. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. xvi, 318 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 1-56639-444-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-56639-445-7.) Get access Paul Jerome Croce Paul Jerome Croce Stetson University DeLand, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1597–15…
A Crisis of Identity
This paper charts the transition in staff professional cultures and identities when three primary sector schools were merged, focusing on the cultural leadership activity of the headteacher of the single merged school before and after reorganisation. A combined cultural and political perspective is employed to analyse who has the power to shape the staff professional culture and identity. The impact of the headteacher's attempts to build a unifie…
Planning for Change in Turbulent Times
Theoretical orientation of the study approaches to planning an overview of the six case study schools the management of planning school development planning factors affecting the planning process the flow of plans towards effective planning for turbulent times
Discourse of derision
It is asserted that the mass media play a significant part in the education policy process, yet this contribution has received little attention in empirical and theoretical analyses. Convergence between theoretical work on education policy and media studies in linking social institutions with the economy in the perpetuation of social inequalities, while accepting their relative autonomy, provides a starting point for incorporation of the media ro…
Razor Ribbons, History Museums, and Civic Salvation
Developing a Training Initiative for British School Managers
Another bad day at the training ground
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic. We therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners. Second, we tentatively offer the alternative metaphor of ‘orchestration’, derived from research on the management of complex change, …
Discourse of derision
It is asserted that the mass media play a significant part in the education policy process, yet this contribution has received little attention in empirical and theoretical analyses. Convergence between theoretical work on education policy and media studies in linking social institutions with the economy in the perpetuation of social inequalities, while accepting their relative autonomy, provides a starting point for incorporation of the media ro…
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
Journal Article Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. By Mike Wallace. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. xvi, 318 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 1-56639-444-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-56639-445-7.) Get access Paul Jerome Croce Paul Jerome Croce Stetson University DeLand, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1597–15…
Industrial Museums and the History of Deindustrialization
Research Article| January 01 1987 Industrial Museums and the History of Deindustrialization Mike Wallace Mike Wallace Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1987) 9 (1): 9–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377102 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Mickey Mouse History
Research Article| January 01 1985 Mickey Mouse History: Portraying the Past at Disney World Mike Wallace Mike Wallace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (32): 33–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1985-32-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mike Wallace; Mickey Mouse History: Portraying the Past at Disney World. Radical History Review 1 January 19…
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Contextualizing Leader Dynamics
A generic conceptualization is developed of the evolutionary relationship between leader activity and context, informed by structuration theory. It is argued that theoretical development to date has underplayed the extent of leaders’ attempted — and more or less successful — manipulation of contextual factors, within structural parameters that bound their agency. A heuristic model of leaders’ interaction with their context is articulated. This li…
Orchestrating Emergent Change
The metaphor of ‘orchestration’ is applied to an emergent change whereby developing different versions of a resource to solve local problems with managing hospitalized patient care in the USA became conceived as a nationwide innovation. A pluralistic framework incorporates Abbott’s conception of a system of professions, a cultural and political perspective on interaction and the notion of ‘orchestration’ which is distinguished from leadership and…
Contradictory interests in policy implementation
Concepts adapted from structuration theory are employed to analyse how a disjunction has been created and sustained between the form taken by annual development plans for schools and a more flexible approach to planning that appears, from small‐scale research, to be effective at school level. The interest of LEAs and central government in a high degree of external control over school development is interpreted as contradictory to the interest at …
Hijacking History
Organisational studies in an era of educational reform
One social science base for educational administration proposed in the Baron and Taylor collection was organisation theory. In the event this expectation turned out to be over-optimistic. Organisation theory was much too contested and insufficiently pragmatic for the British taste. Major developments in this field occurred mainly in the USA. Nevertheless, the more general approach of organisational studies continues to enhance our understanding o…
The Dynamics of Irony in Organizational Change
The potential of an ironic perspective for understanding public service change is portrayed through a re‐analysis of data on a merger between two English primary sector schools, an extreme change involving organizational termination alongside phoenix‐like emergence. The ironic perspective focuses on synchronic dissonance and diachronic divergence in meaning underlying verbal and situational forms of irony respectively, endemic sources of organiza…
Educational Myth-Making With “Due Accuracy and Impartiality”? A Current Affairs TV Episode in the United Kingdom
The mass media contribution to education politics is explored through the application of a pluralistic theoretical framework to evidence connected with the making of an episode of a U.K. current affairs television program. The episode addressed a politically contentious educational issue but proved controversial in itself. Several sources complained that the program team had failed to operate with “due accuracy and impartiality” required in law a…
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
American Metropolis
Journal Article American Metropolis: A History of New York City. By George J. Lankevich. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5148-2 and Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiv, 1,383 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511634-8 Get access Edward K. Spann Edward K. Spann Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana Search for oth…
A Counter‐policy to Subvert Education Reform? Collaboration among Schools and Colleges in a Competitive Climate
The concept of a ‘counter‐policy’ is articulated as a heuristic device for grasping the process of mediation whereby implementation of national policies may stimulate resistance and co‐optation at other education system levels. The discussion is illustrated through exploratory research into initiatives promoting collaboration among English schools and colleges, some enjoying local education authority (LEA) support. The term counter‐policy is defi…
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Radical Caucuses
A History of Class, Race, and Sex Struggles
Review of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Mickey Mouse History
Research Article| January 01 1985 Mickey Mouse History: Portraying the Past at Disney World Mike Wallace Mike Wallace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (32): 33–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1985-32-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mike Wallace; Mickey Mouse History: Portraying the Past at Disney World. Radical History Review 1 January 19…
Interview with Nicaraguan Historians
Other| May 01 1985 Interview with Nicaraguan Historians Mike Wallace Mike Wallace Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (33): 7–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1985-33-7 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Mike Wallace; Interview with Nicaraguan Historians. Radical History Review 1 May 1985; 1985 (33): 7–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1985…
Industrial Museums and the History of Deindustrialization
Research Article| January 01 1987 Industrial Museums and the History of Deindustrialization Mike Wallace Mike Wallace Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1987) 9 (1): 9–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3377102 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Hijacking History
Contradictory interests in policy implementation
Concepts adapted from structuration theory are employed to analyse how a disjunction has been created and sustained between the form taken by annual development plans for schools and a more flexible approach to planning that appears, from small‐scale research, to be effective at school level. The interest of LEAs and central government in a high degree of external control over school development is interpreted as contradictory to the interest at …
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Developing a Training Initiative for British School Managers
Discourse of derision
It is asserted that the mass media play a significant part in the education policy process, yet this contribution has received little attention in empirical and theoretical analyses. Convergence between theoretical work on education policy and media studies in linking social institutions with the economy in the perpetuation of social inequalities, while accepting their relative autonomy, provides a starting point for incorporation of the media ro…
Razor Ribbons, History Museums, and Civic Salvation
Planning for Change in Turbulent Times
Theoretical orientation of the study approaches to planning an overview of the six case study schools the management of planning school development planning factors affecting the planning process the flow of plans towards effective planning for turbulent times
A Crisis of Identity
This paper charts the transition in staff professional cultures and identities when three primary sector schools were merged, focusing on the cultural leadership activity of the headteacher of the single merged school before and after reorganisation. A combined cultural and political perspective is employed to analyse who has the power to shape the staff professional culture and identity. The impact of the headteacher's attempts to build a unifie…
A Counter‐policy to Subvert Education Reform? Collaboration among Schools and Colleges in a Competitive Climate
The concept of a ‘counter‐policy’ is articulated as a heuristic device for grasping the process of mediation whereby implementation of national policies may stimulate resistance and co‐optation at other education system levels. The discussion is illustrated through exploratory research into initiatives promoting collaboration among English schools and colleges, some enjoying local education authority (LEA) support. The term counter‐policy is defi…
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory
Journal Article Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. By Mike Wallace. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. xvi, 318 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 1-56639-444-9. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 1-56639-445-7.) Get access Paul Jerome Croce Paul Jerome Croce Stetson University DeLand, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1597–15…
Combining Cultural and Political Perspectives
American Metropolis
Journal Article American Metropolis: A History of New York City. By George J. Lankevich. New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 273 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5148-2 and Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. By Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiv, 1,383 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-19-511634-8 Get access Edward K. Spann Edward K. Spann Indiana State University Terre Haute, Indiana Search for oth…
Gotham
The Man Who Stayed Behind
The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China's highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.Bo…
The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Another bad day at the training ground
The purposes of this paper are twofold. First, we argue that the rationalistic assumptions on which dominant conceptions of the coaching process rest are rather unrealistic. We therefore hold that they have relatively limited potential either for a theoretical understanding of coaching or for guiding practitioners. Second, we tentatively offer the alternative metaphor of ‘orchestration’, derived from research on the management of complex change, …
Educational Myth-Making With “Due Accuracy and Impartiality”? A Current Affairs TV Episode in the United Kingdom
The mass media contribution to education politics is explored through the application of a pluralistic theoretical framework to evidence connected with the making of an episode of a U.K. current affairs television program. The episode addressed a politically contentious educational issue but proved controversial in itself. Several sources complained that the program team had failed to operate with “due accuracy and impartiality” required in law a…
Beyond Metaphors of Management
In the UK and elsewhere management has become a root metaphor. Educational practitioners must now acquire competence in management discourse. Yet education and management are different social processes. They interpenetrate since much education occurs in schools, which have to be managed. But teaching is not management. This paper identifies how metaphors of management have been absorbed into political discourse and makes a case for metaphoric re-…
Orchestrating Emergent Change
The metaphor of ‘orchestration’ is applied to an emergent change whereby developing different versions of a resource to solve local problems with managing hospitalized patient care in the USA became conceived as a nationwide innovation. A pluralistic framework incorporates Abbott’s conception of a system of professions, a cultural and political perspective on interaction and the notion of ‘orchestration’ which is distinguished from leadership and…
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