Penny Mckeown
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penny Mckeown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penny |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckeown |
| SIGNATURE | MCKEOWN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Parents as Volunteer Citizens
This article critically examines the dominant neo-liberal strategy for enhancing accountability in education. If professional accountability empowered providers at the expense of the public regarded as passive clients, then market accountability atomised the public as consumers and, paradoxically re-empowered the sectional interests of providers and contractors. A model of ‘holding to account’ needs to be complemented by practices of dialogue tha…
Schooling, the churches and the state in Northern Ireland
After a period of generally collaborative, professionally based relations between the main churches and successive governments in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s, a feature of the recent politics of education has been the renewed concern of the Protestant churches about the protection of their interests in the state school system, which most Protestant children attend. As one of the reforms of school governance in the 1980s, the setting up …
Confronting ‘failure’
This paper is based on an in‐depth study of nine secondary schools situated in contexts of disadvantage across the national regions of the UK. First, we examine the construction of educational ‘failure’ by exploring the impact of disadvantage on the quality of learning and the identity of learners in one of the case‐study schools which (like several others) is situated within a large postwar housing development. We then analyse various kinds of i…
Towards a Learning Profession
Professionals were once considered to be the civic leaders, the deliverers of the good society. However, the old order has cracked under the pressure of social change, leaving a very different relation between professionals and their publics. This paper addresses some of the questions occasioned by these changes: Where does the altered power relation between parents, students and teachers leave the notion of teacher professionalism? What is the r…
Towards A Theory of learning
This paper considers the nature of learning and the role of institutions in general and schools in particular in structuring learning. It outlines and commends a view of learning as a process whereby we discover ourselves as persons and thereby act to create the contexts in which we live and work. Central to this view is the idea of the ‘learning school’
School govenance for the civil society
1996). School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents. Local Government Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 210-228
Making the Public Sector More User Friendly? A Critical Examination of the Citizen's Charter
Journal Article Making the Public Sector More User Friendly? A Critical Examination of the Citizen's Charter Get access MICHEAL CONOLLLY, MICHEAL CONOLLLY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PENNY MCKEOWN, PENNY MCKEOWN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GRAINNE MILIGAN-BYRNE GRAINNE MILIGAN-BYRNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Par…
Education Reform in Northern Ireland
This paper aims to investigate the extent to which education reform in Northern Ireland has developed along separate lines and to comment on the degree to which a part of the UK can move independently with respect to key social policies. The next section will examine in more detail the unique features of education in Northern Ireland, following which it will discuss the main elements of the legislation. In doing so, we will draw comparisons with …
Removing education from local government — Lessons from Northern Ireland
Towards a Learning Profession
Professionals were once considered to be the civic leaders, the deliverers of the good society. However, the old order has cracked under the pressure of social change, leaving a very different relation between professionals and their publics. This paper addresses some of the questions occasioned by these changes: Where does the altered power relation between parents, students and teachers leave the notion of teacher professionalism? What is the r…
Making the Public Sector More User Friendly? A Critical Examination of the Citizen's Charter
Journal Article Making the Public Sector More User Friendly? A Critical Examination of the Citizen's Charter Get access MICHEAL CONOLLLY, MICHEAL CONOLLLY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PENNY MCKEOWN, PENNY MCKEOWN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GRAINNE MILIGAN-BYRNE GRAINNE MILIGAN-BYRNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Par…
Education Reform in Northern Ireland
This paper aims to investigate the extent to which education reform in Northern Ireland has developed along separate lines and to comment on the degree to which a part of the UK can move independently with respect to key social policies. The next section will examine in more detail the unique features of education in Northern Ireland, following which it will discuss the main elements of the legislation. In doing so, we will draw comparisons with …
Confronting ‘failure’
This paper is based on an in‐depth study of nine secondary schools situated in contexts of disadvantage across the national regions of the UK. First, we examine the construction of educational ‘failure’ by exploring the impact of disadvantage on the quality of learning and the identity of learners in one of the case‐study schools which (like several others) is situated within a large postwar housing development. We then analyse various kinds of i…
School govenance for the civil society
1996). School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents. Local Government Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 210-228
Schooling, the churches and the state in Northern Ireland
After a period of generally collaborative, professionally based relations between the main churches and successive governments in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s, a feature of the recent politics of education has been the renewed concern of the Protestant churches about the protection of their interests in the state school system, which most Protestant children attend. As one of the reforms of school governance in the 1980s, the setting up …
Removing education from local government — Lessons from Northern Ireland
Parents as Volunteer Citizens
This article critically examines the dominant neo-liberal strategy for enhancing accountability in education. If professional accountability empowered providers at the expense of the public regarded as passive clients, then market accountability atomised the public as consumers and, paradoxically re-empowered the sectional interests of providers and contractors. A model of ‘holding to account’ needs to be complemented by practices of dialogue tha…
Removing education from local government — Lessons from Northern Ireland
Education Reform in Northern Ireland
This paper aims to investigate the extent to which education reform in Northern Ireland has developed along separate lines and to comment on the degree to which a part of the UK can move independently with respect to key social policies. The next section will examine in more detail the unique features of education in Northern Ireland, following which it will discuss the main elements of the legislation. In doing so, we will draw comparisons with …
Making the Public Sector More User Friendly? A Critical Examination of the Citizen's Charter
Journal Article Making the Public Sector More User Friendly? A Critical Examination of the Citizen's Charter Get access MICHEAL CONOLLLY, MICHEAL CONOLLLY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar PENNY MCKEOWN, PENNY MCKEOWN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar GRAINNE MILIGAN-BYRNE GRAINNE MILIGAN-BYRNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Par…
Towards A Theory of learning
This paper considers the nature of learning and the role of institutions in general and schools in particular in structuring learning. It outlines and commends a view of learning as a process whereby we discover ourselves as persons and thereby act to create the contexts in which we live and work. Central to this view is the idea of the ‘learning school’
School govenance for the civil society
1996). School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents. Local Government Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 210-228
Confronting ‘failure’
This paper is based on an in‐depth study of nine secondary schools situated in contexts of disadvantage across the national regions of the UK. First, we examine the construction of educational ‘failure’ by exploring the impact of disadvantage on the quality of learning and the identity of learners in one of the case‐study schools which (like several others) is situated within a large postwar housing development. We then analyse various kinds of i…
Towards a Learning Profession
Professionals were once considered to be the civic leaders, the deliverers of the good society. However, the old order has cracked under the pressure of social change, leaving a very different relation between professionals and their publics. This paper addresses some of the questions occasioned by these changes: Where does the altered power relation between parents, students and teachers leave the notion of teacher professionalism? What is the r…
Schooling, the churches and the state in Northern Ireland
After a period of generally collaborative, professionally based relations between the main churches and successive governments in Northern Ireland since the late 1960s, a feature of the recent politics of education has been the renewed concern of the Protestant churches about the protection of their interests in the state school system, which most Protestant children attend. As one of the reforms of school governance in the 1980s, the setting up …
Parents as Volunteer Citizens
This article critically examines the dominant neo-liberal strategy for enhancing accountability in education. If professional accountability empowered providers at the expense of the public regarded as passive clients, then market accountability atomised the public as consumers and, paradoxically re-empowered the sectional interests of providers and contractors. A model of ‘holding to account’ needs to be complemented by practices of dialogue tha…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · Government (linguistics (3 works)