This article examines the dramatic implications of the turn towards neo-liberal education
policies for teachers' professional identities. It begins with an analysis of some of the key …

Accountability, a cornerstone of contemporary education policy, is increasingly
characterized by external monitoring and an emphasis on outcomes or results. Largely …

The last decade or so has seen an emerging literature supporting the position that school
leaders and school leadership are important. This article argues, however, that recent …

Over the past 30 years teachers have been held increasingly accountable for the quality of
education in their classroom. During this transition, the line between teacher appraisals …

Feminist scholars have critiqued neoliberal meritocracy as discriminating against female
academics through the persistence of gender-biased assumptions, closed procedures of …

Zusammenfassung Mit ‚Schulinspektion 'wird eine Funktion im Schulsystem bezeichnet, die
mittels Überprüfung und Beurteilung der Qualität schulischer Arbeit durch schulexterne …

Historically, school leaders have occupied a somewhat ambiguous position within networks
of power. On the one hand, they appear to be celebrated as what Ball has termed the 'new …

Today's evaluation society makes teachers participate in a stream of external evaluations.
How teachers experience evaluation in school and how this affects their work and …

Three decades of neo-liberal education in western countries, particularly English-speaking
countries, have not served most children well. The evidence is mounting that the neo-liberal …

The exploration of the emotional practice of school leadership is a recent focus of enquiry
with respect to scholarship on school leadership and management. This development …