Steven J Courtney
Biographic Data
| ID | 6156702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven J Courtney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven J |
| FAMILY NAME | Courtney |
| SIGNATURE | COURTNEY S J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Modernising school governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education
Modernising School Governance is essential reading for all those wishing to understand contemporary education and its reform in England. Andrew Wilkins, in his outstanding first published monograph
Corporatising school leadership through hysteresis
This article builds on the established notion that schools are hierarchised through policy, accruing different amounts and types of symbolic capital, by examining how this is reflected in the habitus of the leaders of new, privileged school types. The article uses Bourdieu’s concept of hysteresis, or a dislocation between the habitus which formerly produced success in the field and the habitus currently necessary following changes in field condit…
Research and policy in education
Geoff Whitty’s new book is a major contribution to the field of sociology of education policy. Research and Policy in Education showcases his extraordinary breadth of inquiry, intellectual rigour a
Post-panopticism and school inspection in England
In this paper, I draw on a study of school leaders’ experiences of inspection to argue that repeated changes to school inspection policy in England constitute a post-panoptic regime. Thinking with and against Foucault, I elaborate post-panopticism, here characterised by: subjects’ visibility; ‘fuzzy’ norms; the exposure of subjects’ failure to comply; the disruption of identity-constituting fabrications; its dependence on external ‘experts’; and …
Get off my bus! School leaders, vision work and the elimination of teachers
In this paper, we argue that school leaders are removing those who embody or vocalize alternative conceptualizations of educator. It seems as if Collins’ call in his 2001 book Good to Great to get the right people on the bus is being taken very seriously by school leaders seeking to raise standards. This is achieved by eradicating ‘inadequate’ teaching, and implementing the leader’s ‘vision’, which we argue consists in silencing and potentially r…
Inadvertently queer school leadership amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) school leaders
Lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) school leaders may understand these sexual identities as essentialist categories and present lived experiences resistant to the identity category-troubling tenets of queer theory, whose application in queer empirical research can nonetheless provide important insights into leaders’ identity, practices and power. In this article, I focus on reconciling this conceptual tension to produce an empirical account of inadve…
Post-panopticism and school inspection in England
In this paper, I draw on a study of school leaders’ experiences of inspection to argue that repeated changes to school inspection policy in England constitute a post-panoptic regime. Thinking with and against Foucault, I elaborate post-panopticism, here characterised by: subjects’ visibility; ‘fuzzy’ norms; the exposure of subjects’ failure to comply; the disruption of identity-constituting fabrications; its dependence on external ‘experts’; and …
Corporatising school leadership through hysteresis
This article builds on the established notion that schools are hierarchised through policy, accruing different amounts and types of symbolic capital, by examining how this is reflected in the habitus of the leaders of new, privileged school types. The article uses Bourdieu’s concept of hysteresis, or a dislocation between the habitus which formerly produced success in the field and the habitus currently necessary following changes in field condit…
Inadvertently queer school leadership amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) school leaders
Lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) school leaders may understand these sexual identities as essentialist categories and present lived experiences resistant to the identity category-troubling tenets of queer theory, whose application in queer empirical research can nonetheless provide important insights into leaders’ identity, practices and power. In this article, I focus on reconciling this conceptual tension to produce an empirical account of inadve…
Get off my bus! School leaders, vision work and the elimination of teachers
In this paper, we argue that school leaders are removing those who embody or vocalize alternative conceptualizations of educator. It seems as if Collins’ call in his 2001 book Good to Great to get the right people on the bus is being taken very seriously by school leaders seeking to raise standards. This is achieved by eradicating ‘inadequate’ teaching, and implementing the leader’s ‘vision’, which we argue consists in silencing and potentially r…
Post-panopticism and school inspection in England
In this paper, I draw on a study of school leaders’ experiences of inspection to argue that repeated changes to school inspection policy in England constitute a post-panoptic regime. Thinking with and against Foucault, I elaborate post-panopticism, here characterised by: subjects’ visibility; ‘fuzzy’ norms; the exposure of subjects’ failure to comply; the disruption of identity-constituting fabrications; its dependence on external ‘experts’; and …
Corporatising school leadership through hysteresis
This article builds on the established notion that schools are hierarchised through policy, accruing different amounts and types of symbolic capital, by examining how this is reflected in the habitus of the leaders of new, privileged school types. The article uses Bourdieu’s concept of hysteresis, or a dislocation between the habitus which formerly produced success in the field and the habitus currently necessary following changes in field condit…
Research and policy in education
Geoff Whitty’s new book is a major contribution to the field of sociology of education policy. Research and Policy in Education showcases his extraordinary breadth of inquiry, intellectual rigour a
Modernising school governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education
Modernising School Governance is essential reading for all those wishing to understand contemporary education and its reform in England. Andrew Wilkins, in his outstanding first published monograph
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)