Andy Mckay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81499 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andy Mckay |
| PRENOMES | Andy |
| SOBRENOME | Mckay |
| ASSINATURA | MCKAY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8306-5202 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gendered time poverty
Teaching is often framed as a ‘family-friendly’ profession, aligned with women's caring roles. This paper challenges that assumption by examining how contemporary teaching produces gendered forms of time poverty. Drawing on 43 interviews, we develop a theoretically informed analysis that brings together Rosa's concept of social acceleration and Wajcman's account of time pressure. We argue that shifts in workload and work intensity which produce t…
Leadership in liquid times
Supporting wellbeing of Australian school leaders through peer supervision
Principals play an important role in creating positive school climates. However, principals are also at higher risk of having mental health problems and diminished wellbeing due to the complex nature of their work. Research has found that excessive workloads further undermine principal physical and mental health, with supportive networks and peer-supervision serving as examples of interventions found to improve principal wellbeing. Despite the li…
Typologising formal school-to-school collaborations—education collectives—in China through the metaphor of Chinese landscape painting
In China, formal school groupings known as ‘education collectives’ have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than their structural diversity. This article seeks to address this gap by typologising education collectiv…
Elaborating Educative Leadership Through an Analysis of Anti-Educative Headteacher and Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) CEO/Executive Principal Standards in England
The Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) has reduced the practice of educational leadership in those jurisdictions experiencing it to totalitarian managerialism by numbers, corporatised, privatised and performative. Such leadership is unable to address the contemporary challenges that confront educational leaders. Educative leadership has been proposed as a corrective but is conceptualised variously and inconsistently across the literature. In…
The Tax Elasticity of Formal Work in Sub-Saharan African Countries
When seeking to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a likely tradeoff between decreasing personal income tax rates (making formalizing more attractive and potentially contributing to revenue) and alternatively raising tax rates (potentially slowing down the formalization of the economy if people prefer informal employment).Evidence on formal versus informal earnings and job characteristics in different sectors is limited in African co…
On the uses and use of Naplan
This paper engages, Sara Ahmed's theorising on 'the uses of use' to frame an analysis of the hidden, embedded effects of standardised testing policy that have become normative practice/s in Queensland, Australia.It (re)examines data from an ethno-case study into the datafication of assessment and learning over one school year, in primary and secondary schooling contexts, to understand the uses of the National Assessment Program -Literacy and Nume…
System leadership in China? Conceptualising “Education Collectives” as formal school partnerships through the dragon boat metaphor
System leadership is increasingly and normatively used to describe administrative practices across education institutions. However, we argue that what is spreading are policy conditions encouraging multiple institutions to share governance arrangements. This requires new forms of leadership, which summons and reifies the researchable, but malleable category of “system leadership”. In this article, we analyse interview data from the constituent Pr…
Rethinking regional integration in Africa for inclusive and sustainable development
This article is an introduction to this Special Issue on Rethinking in Regional Integration in Africa which is based on a collaborative research project, implemented by African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), the leading economic capacity building institution in Africa, and funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB). This project is very timely given the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which came into for…
What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education
The series of responses in this article were gathered as part of an online mini conference held in September 2021 that sought to explore different ideas and articulations of school autonomy reform across the world (Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, the USA, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand). It centred upon an important question: what needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of educa…
Mixed Messages
Love, care, and solidarity
This paper explores the emotional work involved in leading schools in marginalised communities, through case studies of Australian and English government-school principals theorised through Lynch’s framework of affective justice and the embedded concepts of love, care and solidarity. Participants demonstrated solidarity in their choice of working in these particular schools, which brings with them a higher level of emotional complexity. Their wor…
How to be reflexive
This paper explores reflexivity in qualitative research, challenging conventional perspectives that revolve around the binary of 'insider' and 'outsider' positioning. While traditionally reflexivity has been understood through the lens of a researcher's socio-historical positionality, we argue for a more dynamic understanding, emphasizing that academic self-formation is an ongoing process of self-creation. Drawing inspiration from the ancient Aka…
Mapping trends in educational-leadership research
The field of educational-leadership research has broadened over the last 50 years, with diverse knowledge-production traditions (e.g. functionalist and critical); audiences (e.g. practitioners, researchers and policymakers) and preferred sites of publication. In this article, we trace how the objectives, methods, claims and relative significance of educational-leadership research, and the identities and epistemological assumptions of educational-…
‘I cannot sustain the workload and the emotional toll’
Concerns are mounting about the attraction and retention of teachers in Australian schools. This study draws upon a questionnaire of 2444 Australian primary and secondary school teachers, which revealed that only 41% of respondents intended to remain in the profession. Through a thematic analysis of the qualitative data within the questionnaire, we use employee turnover theory to enable an understanding of the reasons 1446 of the respondents desc…
Reflections on how education can be for democracy in the twenty-first century
This paper is one of two that bring together a range of education scholars to consider how education might be for democracy in a time of complex challenges facing twenty-first century societies. In this paper, scholars from Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom consider how sites of formal and informal education can respond to multiple unfolding crises, including the COVID-19 global pandemic, catastrophic climate change and ecological collapse,…
Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key educational scholar–activists respond to the challenges and possibilities for democracy and education, with co…
Education, policy and democracy
Retaining Australia’s school leaders in ‘challenging’ contexts
Introduction to rapid response papers’ special issue
We are delighted to introduce the first in our occasional series of rapid response papers on the highly topical issue of school leadership and the Covid 19 pandemic. We warmly thank the contributor
Educational Leadership and Policy
The impact of agricultural commercialisation on household welfare in rural Vietnam
Commercialisation by smallholder farmers has played a major role in agricultural development in many Asian countries, and while there are assumptions that this has led to welfare improvement, in fact there is relatively little evidence on this question. In this paper we use high quality panel data to examine the welfare impact of agricultural commercialisation in a leading Asian producer, Vietnam. We use the five-wave Vietnam Access to Resources …
Educational leadership and policy in 2020
In our last editorial in May 2020 (Vol. 52, Issue 2), we reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic that was affecting communities around the world. Now, at the end of 2020, we could never have predicted t
Educational leadership and policy on rapidly shifting ground
The ‘punk rock principal’
This paper advances an alternative leadership metaphor of ‘punk rock leadership’. I work through the usefulness of a metaphor of punk rock leadership as a way of exploring one principal's vision of leadership and his efforts to work outside of system expectations in his quest to achieve the school's goals. In doing so, I contribute to our wider understanding of the methodological process, affordances, and challenges of using metaphors to theorise…
Assessing the Extent and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Low Income Countries
A quantitative analysis of poverty and livelihood profiles
Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key educational scholar–activists respond to the challenges and possibilities for democracy and education, with co…
The impact of agricultural commercialisation on household welfare in rural Vietnam
Commercialisation by smallholder farmers has played a major role in agricultural development in many Asian countries, and while there are assumptions that this has led to welfare improvement, in fact there is relatively little evidence on this question. In this paper we use high quality panel data to examine the welfare impact of agricultural commercialisation in a leading Asian producer, Vietnam. We use the five-wave Vietnam Access to Resources …
Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Assessing Chronic Poverty
Modeling determinants of poverty in Mauritania
Financial liberalisation and private investment
The ‘punk rock principal’
This paper advances an alternative leadership metaphor of ‘punk rock leadership’. I work through the usefulness of a metaphor of punk rock leadership as a way of exploring one principal's vision of leadership and his efforts to work outside of system expectations in his quest to achieve the school's goals. In doing so, I contribute to our wider understanding of the methodological process, affordances, and challenges of using metaphors to theorise…
The accountability generation
School leaders in Queensland, Australia, are working in a rapidly shifting policy landscape, expected to work towards system-defined improvement measures involving increasingly higher external accountabilities. This article analyses a group of long-term case studies of the effects of school improvement expectations on principals since the introduction of National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in 2008. Foucauldian theory is u…
Gender gaps in the path to adulthood for young females and males in six African countries from the 1990s to the 2010s
In this paper, we study on a comparative basis the school-to-work transition of young women and young men in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and we examine how this has evolved over recent years, based on the data collected by Demographic and Health Surveys. We examine educational attainments and the nature of early jobs young people are able to obtain, as well as considering their relationship to marriage and fertility outcomes, factors whi…
Power and the ‘autonomous’ principal
One aspect of instructional leadership is the work principals undertake in supporting and developing teachers’ skills and capabilities. This paper examines this aspect of school leadership within a climate characterised by increased principal workloads, heavy external accountabilities, pressure to improve student results, and heightened autonomy which included discourses regarding principals’ increased freedom in staffing decisions. The case stud…
On the uses and use of Naplan
This paper engages, Sara Ahmed's theorising on 'the uses of use' to frame an analysis of the hidden, embedded effects of standardised testing policy that have become normative practice/s in Queensland, Australia.It (re)examines data from an ethno-case study into the datafication of assessment and learning over one school year, in primary and secondary schooling contexts, to understand the uses of the National Assessment Program -Literacy and Nume…
How to be reflexive
This paper explores reflexivity in qualitative research, challenging conventional perspectives that revolve around the binary of 'insider' and 'outsider' positioning. While traditionally reflexivity has been understood through the lens of a researcher's socio-historical positionality, we argue for a more dynamic understanding, emphasizing that academic self-formation is an ongoing process of self-creation. Drawing inspiration from the ancient Aka…
Reflections on how education can be for democracy in the twenty-first century
This paper is one of two that bring together a range of education scholars to consider how education might be for democracy in a time of complex challenges facing twenty-first century societies. In this paper, scholars from Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom consider how sites of formal and informal education can respond to multiple unfolding crises, including the COVID-19 global pandemic, catastrophic climate change and ecological collapse,…
New and alternative metaphors for school leadership
Metaphors are devices that help us connect new information and experiences to that which is already known to us (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Research suggests that metaphors are an important aspect o
Trade Liberalisation and Agricultural Supply Response
Modeling determinants of poverty in Mauritania
Strategic trade policy, learning by doing effects and economic development
Measuring trade strategy in the presence of non‐tradeables
This article models trade policies in the presence of non-tradeables, and investigates trade strategy interventions and outcomes where the price of non-tradeables endogenously adjusts to trade interventions. Trade regime bias and neutrality issues are examined within a three-sector, open economy model. The theoretical framework is operationalised using empirical evidence for Trinidad and Barbados. The robustness of partial equilibrium measures of…
Trade Liberalisation and Agricultural Supply Response
Financial liberalisation and private investment
Assessing the Extent and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Low Income Countries
Trade Liberalization and Poverty
This paper assesses the current state of evidence on the impact of trade policy reform on poverty in developing countries. There is little empirical evidence addressing this question directly, but a lot of related evidence on specific aspects. We summarize this evidence using an analytic framework addressing four key areas: economic growth and stability; households and markets; wages and employment and government revenue. Twelve key questions are…
Relationships between Household Consumption and Inequality in the Indian States
Current evidence on the relationships between growth and inequality is predominantly based on cross-country data sets or panel data sets covering a small number of time periods. But these relationships, being fundamentally dynamic in nature, need to be considered over a much longer time horizon. Available state level results from the National Sample Surveys in India provide such an opportunity. This article uses this unique data set to examine th…
Poverty persistence and transitions in Uganda
Despite Uganda's impressive reduction in income poverty during the 1990s, recent evidence has shown there to be substantial mobility into and out of poverty. This paper represents one of the first attempts to combine qualitative and quantitative information to understand the factors and processes underlying poverty transitions and persistence. In some instances similar factors are identified by both qualitative and quantitative approaches, includ…
Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Assessing Chronic Poverty
Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions
A quantitative analysis of poverty and livelihood profiles
How Strong is the Evidence for the Existence of Poverty Traps? A Multicountry Assessment
Introducing this special collection on asset dynamics and poverty traps, this article assesses evidence on these issues across eight panel data sets in six countries generally not previously considered in this perspective. It examines the importance of assets in relation to chronic poverty and uses parametric and non-parametric methods to test for dynamic asset-based poverty traps. The article finds that chronically poor households have lower lev…
Growth, poverty, and inequality
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian household surveys that were conducted respectively in 1996, 2001, and 2007. These objecti…
The Impact of Cooking with Firewood on Respiratory Health
The vast majority of households in low-income countries cook with firewood, which is known to produce various airborne toxins. We examine whether cooking with firewood results in poorer respiratory health by using a unique Indonesian household survey that collected direct measures of lung capacity. We find that individuals living in households that cook with firewood have 9.4 per cent lower lung capacity than those that cook with cleaner fuels. T…
Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
While the economic growth renaissance in sub-Saharan Africa is widely recognized, much less is known about progress in living conditions. This book comprehensively evaluates trends in living conditions in sixteen major sub-Saharan African countries, corresponding to nearly 75 per cent of the total population. Authors, all with extensive knowledge of the country in question, were charged with conducting a careful assessment of the full range of av…
Forest clearing, livelihood strategies and welfare
Power and the ‘autonomous’ principal
One aspect of instructional leadership is the work principals undertake in supporting and developing teachers’ skills and capabilities. This paper examines this aspect of school leadership within a climate characterised by increased principal workloads, heavy external accountabilities, pressure to improve student results, and heightened autonomy which included discourses regarding principals’ increased freedom in staffing decisions. The case stud…
Looking back to understand the present and future
The accountability generation
School leaders in Queensland, Australia, are working in a rapidly shifting policy landscape, expected to work towards system-defined improvement measures involving increasingly higher external accountabilities. This article analyses a group of long-term case studies of the effects of school improvement expectations on principals since the introduction of National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) in 2008. Foucauldian theory is u…
Gender gaps in the path to adulthood for young females and males in six African countries from the 1990s to the 2010s
In this paper, we study on a comparative basis the school-to-work transition of young women and young men in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and we examine how this has evolved over recent years, based on the data collected by Demographic and Health Surveys. We examine educational attainments and the nature of early jobs young people are able to obtain, as well as considering their relationship to marriage and fertility outcomes, factors whi…
The ‘punk rock principal’
This paper advances an alternative leadership metaphor of ‘punk rock leadership’. I work through the usefulness of a metaphor of punk rock leadership as a way of exploring one principal's vision of leadership and his efforts to work outside of system expectations in his quest to achieve the school's goals. In doing so, I contribute to our wider understanding of the methodological process, affordances, and challenges of using metaphors to theorise…
New and alternative metaphors for school leadership
Metaphors are devices that help us connect new information and experiences to that which is already known to us (Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Research suggests that metaphors are an important aspect o
The impact of agricultural commercialisation on household welfare in rural Vietnam
Commercialisation by smallholder farmers has played a major role in agricultural development in many Asian countries, and while there are assumptions that this has led to welfare improvement, in fact there is relatively little evidence on this question. In this paper we use high quality panel data to examine the welfare impact of agricultural commercialisation in a leading Asian producer, Vietnam. We use the five-wave Vietnam Access to Resources …
Educational leadership and policy in 2020
In our last editorial in May 2020 (Vol. 52, Issue 2), we reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic that was affecting communities around the world. Now, at the end of 2020, we could never have predicted t
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