Bernard Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4212427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy
The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners. The aim is to better understand the educational success and upward mobility of G2 migrants, who are reported to outperform their na…
STEM, Social Mobility and Equality: Avenues for Widening Access
Social mobility: The potential of a genealogical approach
This article highlights the potential of taking a genealogical approach to researching social mobility based on empirical insights generated from a qualitative case study in a secondary school located in the South East of England. The study involved interviews with 42 students and the data lead to a deeper understanding of the role of families in inter‐ and intra‐generational social movement. We begin by highlighting some limitations in existing …
Can high-performing academies overcome family background and improve social mobility
This article investigates whether schools that match Coalition Government criteria for excellence can enable hardworking students, regardless of background, to achieve good examination results and improved chances of social mobility. Students at two case-study academies were interviewed about family influences on their development and choice of education and employment pathways. In a ‘best case’ scenario, where prototype academies have rigorously…
Aspirations and Young People’s Constructions of Their Futures: Investigating Social Mobility and Social Reproduction
The United Kingdom’s Coalition government has introduced an education policy that is focused on increasing the opportunities to promote and advance social mobility for all children within state education. Raising young people’s aspirations through school-based initiatives is a prominent theme within recent policy texts, which are focused on improving educational outcomes and thus advancing social mobility. This article draws on qualitative data f…
Secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age: Coming of age
Secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age: coming of age?." Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48(1), pp. 124–125
Frozen pendulum
This article examines the New Labour legacy in education, reviews the arguments of The Pendulum Swings in the light of contributions to this themed issue, examines early Coalition policymaking, and recommends four principles that should guide the search for a new approach to school improvement. Recent initiatives are found to be a parody of school reform, as previously understood, more likely to provoke a crisis than to sustain the last governmen…
Selling out: Academic freedom and the corporate market
by Howard Woodhouse, Montreal, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2009, 350 pp., $39.95 (hardback), ISBN 978‐07735‐3580‐0 During the last half‐century, higher education around the world has been tran
Public service reform in education: Why is progress so slow
This case study examines why public‐sector reform in education often fails to deliver expected performance gains. Longitudinal evidence from a secondary comprehensive located in a former coalfield is used to identify constraints that frustrate government policies. Although the head and senior staff at Norcross School adopted transformational, distributed modes of leadership and implemented a rigorous target‐setting regime, the expected increase i…
School reform policy in England since 1988: Relentless pursuit of the unattainable
There is growing concern that almost 20 years after the 1988 Education Act, top‐down, large‐scale reform has stalled. The policy mix of choice, competition, markets, regulation, accountability and leadership seems not to have closed the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged areas and individuals, while most variations in school performance can be explained in terms of intake differences. This paper reviews policy and progress since 1988 and as…
A New Labour Archive: The Middleton Collection
A New Labour Archive: The Middleton Collection Get access Bernard Barker Bernard Barker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, Autumn 1985, Pages 164–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/20.1.164 Published: 01 October 1985
Anatomy of Reformism: The Social and Political Ideas of the Labour Leadership in Yorkshire
Critiques of the history of British Socialism tend to begin with the assumption that the Labour movement preferred evolution to revolution, reform to fundamental change. The local Labour leadership is alleged to have responded to the difficulties of radical politics between 1880 and 1920 by tamely following a policy of tactical moderation devised in London by the Parliamentary front bench
Aspirations and Young People’s Constructions of Their Futures: Investigating Social Mobility and Social Reproduction
The United Kingdom’s Coalition government has introduced an education policy that is focused on increasing the opportunities to promote and advance social mobility for all children within state education. Raising young people’s aspirations through school-based initiatives is a prominent theme within recent policy texts, which are focused on improving educational outcomes and thus advancing social mobility. This article draws on qualitative data f…
Can high-performing academies overcome family background and improve social mobility
This article investigates whether schools that match Coalition Government criteria for excellence can enable hardworking students, regardless of background, to achieve good examination results and improved chances of social mobility. Students at two case-study academies were interviewed about family influences on their development and choice of education and employment pathways. In a ‘best case’ scenario, where prototype academies have rigorously…
School reform policy in England since 1988: Relentless pursuit of the unattainable
There is growing concern that almost 20 years after the 1988 Education Act, top‐down, large‐scale reform has stalled. The policy mix of choice, competition, markets, regulation, accountability and leadership seems not to have closed the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged areas and individuals, while most variations in school performance can be explained in terms of intake differences. This paper reviews policy and progress since 1988 and as…
Frozen pendulum
This article examines the New Labour legacy in education, reviews the arguments of The Pendulum Swings in the light of contributions to this themed issue, examines early Coalition policymaking, and recommends four principles that should guide the search for a new approach to school improvement. Recent initiatives are found to be a parody of school reform, as previously understood, more likely to provoke a crisis than to sustain the last governmen…
Public service reform in education: Why is progress so slow
This case study examines why public‐sector reform in education often fails to deliver expected performance gains. Longitudinal evidence from a secondary comprehensive located in a former coalfield is used to identify constraints that frustrate government policies. Although the head and senior staff at Norcross School adopted transformational, distributed modes of leadership and implemented a rigorous target‐setting regime, the expected increase i…
Anatomy of Reformism: The Social and Political Ideas of the Labour Leadership in Yorkshire
Critiques of the history of British Socialism tend to begin with the assumption that the Labour movement preferred evolution to revolution, reform to fundamental change. The local Labour leadership is alleged to have responded to the difficulties of radical politics between 1880 and 1920 by tamely following a policy of tactical moderation devised in London by the Parliamentary front bench
A New Labour Archive: The Middleton Collection
A New Labour Archive: The Middleton Collection Get access Bernard Barker Bernard Barker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 20, Issue 1, Autumn 1985, Pages 164–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/20.1.164 Published: 01 October 1985
School reform policy in England since 1988: Relentless pursuit of the unattainable
There is growing concern that almost 20 years after the 1988 Education Act, top‐down, large‐scale reform has stalled. The policy mix of choice, competition, markets, regulation, accountability and leadership seems not to have closed the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged areas and individuals, while most variations in school performance can be explained in terms of intake differences. This paper reviews policy and progress since 1988 and as…
Public service reform in education: Why is progress so slow
This case study examines why public‐sector reform in education often fails to deliver expected performance gains. Longitudinal evidence from a secondary comprehensive located in a former coalfield is used to identify constraints that frustrate government policies. Although the head and senior staff at Norcross School adopted transformational, distributed modes of leadership and implemented a rigorous target‐setting regime, the expected increase i…
Selling out: Academic freedom and the corporate market
by Howard Woodhouse, Montreal, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2009, 350 pp., $39.95 (hardback), ISBN 978‐07735‐3580‐0 During the last half‐century, higher education around the world has been tran
Frozen pendulum
This article examines the New Labour legacy in education, reviews the arguments of The Pendulum Swings in the light of contributions to this themed issue, examines early Coalition policymaking, and recommends four principles that should guide the search for a new approach to school improvement. Recent initiatives are found to be a parody of school reform, as previously understood, more likely to provoke a crisis than to sustain the last governmen…
Secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age: Coming of age
Secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age: coming of age?." Journal of Educational Administration and History, 48(1), pp. 124–125
Can high-performing academies overcome family background and improve social mobility
This article investigates whether schools that match Coalition Government criteria for excellence can enable hardworking students, regardless of background, to achieve good examination results and improved chances of social mobility. Students at two case-study academies were interviewed about family influences on their development and choice of education and employment pathways. In a ‘best case’ scenario, where prototype academies have rigorously…
Aspirations and Young People’s Constructions of Their Futures: Investigating Social Mobility and Social Reproduction
The United Kingdom’s Coalition government has introduced an education policy that is focused on increasing the opportunities to promote and advance social mobility for all children within state education. Raising young people’s aspirations through school-based initiatives is a prominent theme within recent policy texts, which are focused on improving educational outcomes and thus advancing social mobility. This article draws on qualitative data f…
Social mobility: The potential of a genealogical approach
This article highlights the potential of taking a genealogical approach to researching social mobility based on empirical insights generated from a qualitative case study in a secondary school located in the South East of England. The study involved interviews with 42 students and the data lead to a deeper understanding of the role of families in inter‐ and intra‐generational social movement. We begin by highlighting some limitations in existing …
STEM, Social Mobility and Equality: Avenues for Widening Access
Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy
The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners. The aim is to better understand the educational success and upward mobility of G2 migrants, who are reported to outperform their na…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social mobility (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works) · Social science (4 works)