Michael R Strain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4797762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael R Strain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael R |
| FAMILY NAME | Strain |
| SIGNATURE | STRAIN M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion
The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply among adults in those families. Our review of available research suggests that employment within broadly defined demographic groups was not reduced by the 2021 CTC changes. However, we see some evidence that empl…
Response to Michael Reich
The Long Recovery from the Great Recession
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have been marked by the Great Recession (GR), which was followed by the longest recovery in U.S. history, here termed the Long Recovery (LR). The LR lasted more than 10 years and ended with a pandemic bang in March 2020. This article introduces the eighteen articles that make up our review of the effects of the LR on the working class. What did more than a decade of economic expansion following th…
The Recovery from the Great Recession
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States’ economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the Great Depression. A slow and steady recovery followed the Great Recession’s official end in summer 2009, but because it was slow and the depth of the rece…
Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools
English primary schools are considered quasi‐collegial institutions within which staff communicate regularly and openly. The activities of staff, however, are bound by institutional norms and conditions and by societal expectations. Wider agendas of governmental control over the curriculum and external controls to ensure accountability and learning standards have influenced the development and purposes of middle leaders’ roles. This is a conceptu…
Making schools and young people responsible
Worldwide reports of an obesity 'epidemic' prompted the Irish government to appoint a multidisciplinary Taskforce, whose report was published in May 2005. This paper critically analyses the report and its recommendations for reducing health risks among families, children and young people. Using a Foucauldian perspective, we question the report's individualizing focus and support for a strategy which responsibilises schools, families and young peo…
Reflexivity
The idea that the present is a period of intense structural and destabilizing change has become central to establishing policy contexts, to which there needs to be a response. Change and adaptation to change have become watchwords of policy, including educational policy. One central area of response in the UK and internationally has been the emergence of lifelong learning as a focus of policy development and academic debate. While there has been …
Towards an Economy of Lifelong Learning
Lifelong learning should embrace more than instrumental purposes. Some late modern social formations threaten individual autonomy, subordinating the needs of ‘agent’in a ‘locality’to universalising rationality, necessary for growth in a globalized and virtualised economy. These phenomena are discussed and illustrated. Learning, now an‘economic’ activity, could bind individuals in heteronymously defined lifeworlds. Prerequisites of an alternative …
Taking the Discursive Turn
On ‘The Myth of the Learning Society’
A recent critique by Hughes and Tight (1995) argued that the ‘Learning Society’ and related notions of productivity and change are ‘myths’. In response, it is argued here that myth should not be confused with ideological distortion. The rhetorical dimension of current initiatives is a necessary feature of theoretical formulation, intended to influence public discussion and policy-making. The concepts of productivity and change are reconsidered in…
The Political Dimension in Teacher Education
Teacher Education Policy in England, Maeve Landman and Jenny Ozga Teacher Education, Reform and the Politics of Knowledge in the United States, Thomas S. Popkewitz Teacher Education in Search of a Metaphor: Defining the Realtionship Between Teachers, Teaching and the State in China, Lynn Paine Sociopolitical Realities and Teacher Education in New South Africa, Beverly Lindsay Student Teaching as Social Reproduction: An Ethnography in Appalachia i…
Autonomy, Schools and the Constitutive Role of Community
The moral and political implications of new forms of organisation and resource allocation in education are explored. Markets, even when heavily regulated and administered, induce effects contrary to the values of individual and social freedom upon which public education is understood to be founded. Their ‘efficiency’ as allocative and distributive mechanisms is questioned and examined specifically in relation to the formative and constitutive rol…
Education reform in Northern Ireland
1992). Education reform in Northern Ireland: Towards harmonisation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 9-17
The Distribution of Power and Influence in English Education
Reflexivity
The idea that the present is a period of intense structural and destabilizing change has become central to establishing policy contexts, to which there needs to be a response. Change and adaptation to change have become watchwords of policy, including educational policy. One central area of response in the UK and internationally has been the emergence of lifelong learning as a focus of policy development and academic debate. While there has been …
Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools
English primary schools are considered quasi‐collegial institutions within which staff communicate regularly and openly. The activities of staff, however, are bound by institutional norms and conditions and by societal expectations. Wider agendas of governmental control over the curriculum and external controls to ensure accountability and learning standards have influenced the development and purposes of middle leaders’ roles. This is a conceptu…
Making schools and young people responsible
Worldwide reports of an obesity 'epidemic' prompted the Irish government to appoint a multidisciplinary Taskforce, whose report was published in May 2005. This paper critically analyses the report and its recommendations for reducing health risks among families, children and young people. Using a Foucauldian perspective, we question the report's individualizing focus and support for a strategy which responsibilises schools, families and young peo…
On ‘The Myth of the Learning Society’
A recent critique by Hughes and Tight (1995) argued that the ‘Learning Society’ and related notions of productivity and change are ‘myths’. In response, it is argued here that myth should not be confused with ideological distortion. The rhetorical dimension of current initiatives is a necessary feature of theoretical formulation, intended to influence public discussion and policy-making. The concepts of productivity and change are reconsidered in…
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion
The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply among adults in those families. Our review of available research suggests that employment within broadly defined demographic groups was not reduced by the 2021 CTC changes. However, we see some evidence that empl…
The Recovery from the Great Recession
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States’ economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the Great Depression. A slow and steady recovery followed the Great Recession’s official end in summer 2009, but because it was slow and the depth of the rece…
Education reform in Northern Ireland
1992). Education reform in Northern Ireland: Towards harmonisation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 9-17
Towards an Economy of Lifelong Learning
Lifelong learning should embrace more than instrumental purposes. Some late modern social formations threaten individual autonomy, subordinating the needs of ‘agent’in a ‘locality’to universalising rationality, necessary for growth in a globalized and virtualised economy. These phenomena are discussed and illustrated. Learning, now an‘economic’ activity, could bind individuals in heteronymously defined lifeworlds. Prerequisites of an alternative …
The Distribution of Power and Influence in English Education
The Distribution of Power and Influence in English Education
Education reform in Northern Ireland
1992). Education reform in Northern Ireland: Towards harmonisation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 9-17
Autonomy, Schools and the Constitutive Role of Community
The moral and political implications of new forms of organisation and resource allocation in education are explored. Markets, even when heavily regulated and administered, induce effects contrary to the values of individual and social freedom upon which public education is understood to be founded. Their ‘efficiency’ as allocative and distributive mechanisms is questioned and examined specifically in relation to the formative and constitutive rol…
The Political Dimension in Teacher Education
Teacher Education Policy in England, Maeve Landman and Jenny Ozga Teacher Education, Reform and the Politics of Knowledge in the United States, Thomas S. Popkewitz Teacher Education in Search of a Metaphor: Defining the Realtionship Between Teachers, Teaching and the State in China, Lynn Paine Sociopolitical Realities and Teacher Education in New South Africa, Beverly Lindsay Student Teaching as Social Reproduction: An Ethnography in Appalachia i…
Taking the Discursive Turn
On ‘The Myth of the Learning Society’
A recent critique by Hughes and Tight (1995) argued that the ‘Learning Society’ and related notions of productivity and change are ‘myths’. In response, it is argued here that myth should not be confused with ideological distortion. The rhetorical dimension of current initiatives is a necessary feature of theoretical formulation, intended to influence public discussion and policy-making. The concepts of productivity and change are reconsidered in…
Towards an Economy of Lifelong Learning
Lifelong learning should embrace more than instrumental purposes. Some late modern social formations threaten individual autonomy, subordinating the needs of ‘agent’in a ‘locality’to universalising rationality, necessary for growth in a globalized and virtualised economy. These phenomena are discussed and illustrated. Learning, now an‘economic’ activity, could bind individuals in heteronymously defined lifeworlds. Prerequisites of an alternative …
Reflexivity
The idea that the present is a period of intense structural and destabilizing change has become central to establishing policy contexts, to which there needs to be a response. Change and adaptation to change have become watchwords of policy, including educational policy. One central area of response in the UK and internationally has been the emergence of lifelong learning as a focus of policy development and academic debate. While there has been …
Making schools and young people responsible
Worldwide reports of an obesity 'epidemic' prompted the Irish government to appoint a multidisciplinary Taskforce, whose report was published in May 2005. This paper critically analyses the report and its recommendations for reducing health risks among families, children and young people. Using a Foucauldian perspective, we question the report's individualizing focus and support for a strategy which responsibilises schools, families and young peo…
Power, agency and middle leadership in English primary schools
English primary schools are considered quasi‐collegial institutions within which staff communicate regularly and openly. The activities of staff, however, are bound by institutional norms and conditions and by societal expectations. Wider agendas of governmental control over the curriculum and external controls to ensure accountability and learning standards have influenced the development and purposes of middle leaders’ roles. This is a conceptu…
Response to Michael Reich
The Long Recovery from the Great Recession
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have been marked by the Great Recession (GR), which was followed by the longest recovery in U.S. history, here termed the Long Recovery (LR). The LR lasted more than 10 years and ended with a pandemic bang in March 2020. This article introduces the eighteen articles that make up our review of the effects of the LR on the working class. What did more than a decade of economic expansion following th…
The Recovery from the Great Recession
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States’ economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the Great Depression. A slow and steady recovery followed the Great Recession’s official end in summer 2009, but because it was slow and the depth of the rece…
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion
The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have led to a reduction in labor supply among adults in those families. Our review of available research suggests that employment within broadly defined demographic groups was not reduced by the 2021 CTC changes. However, we see some evidence that empl…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works)