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Crisis Racism and the Introduction of Fundamental British Values
This chapter provides an account of the introduction of fundamental British values (2011) and the Prevent duty (2015). Framed as racial crisis events...
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Trends and Practices in English Education Law
In common with many other nations, education in England has been a political trophy since at least the nineteenth century, with all elements of the...
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Multiculturalism, Religious Education, and Fundamental British Values
This chapter maps the relationship between multiculturalism and education from the immediate post-Second World War period to the present day. Focus...
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Time Matters in Higher Education: How the ECTS Changes Ideas of Desired Student Conduct
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is based on a quantitative and accumulative understanding of time, which increasingly...
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Leadership and the Political State
The requirement for schools to promote ‘fundamental British values’ appeared in the Ofsted inspection handbook for the first time in 2014, following...
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Testing the Exception: The Curious Embrace of International Comparisons in American Education Discourse
Americans as a group usually don’t care much for what happens abroad or how other countries perform the basic tasks of governance. To refer to a...
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Instructions, commands, and coercive control: a critical discourse analysis of the textbook representation of the living cell
A number of scholars have shown the prevalence of multiple metaphors in biological conceptions of the living cell. However, there is little research...
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Conclusion: Building Fair Data Cultures in Higher Education
This chapter presents the conclusions of the book Data Cultures in Higher Education: Current Practices and Emergent Challenges. It is divided in...
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Being a Scarecrow in Oz: Neoliberalism, Higher Education and the dynamics of ‘Imposterism’
This chapter provides an autoethnographic account of an academic careercareer defined by the personal and social consequences of a significant...
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Introduction
This book is a critical examination of the impact of fundamental British values on the subjectivities of secondary religious education (RE) teachers....
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School Leadership and the Market
Highlighting the key features of public choice economics, and their role in educational reforms and the reframing of educational research in the...
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Schools, Leadership and the Law
This chapter explores the relationship between school inspection and the law, highlighting ‘securitizing moves’ where the state interprets...
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Equality of Opportunity: Pro et Contra
Equality of opportunity has been one of the most important social ideals associated with contemporary societies. In fact, no single idea has arguably...
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A Newer Version of an Old Beast: The Higher Education Disaster Before COVID
In this chapter, we take the long view of the history of higher education in the U.S. to better explain the magnitude of what happened in the COVID...
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Foucault and Fundamental British Values
Foucault famously compared his ideas to tools that researchers could use to unmask the power relations which objectified human subjects. In this...
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Pakistan’s Higher Education System
Higher education in Pakistan is analyzed here within the context of the country’s historical and political development. Critical for understanding...
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Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance
This chapter locates the beginning of a British educational interest in tolerance of different religious beliefs in the educational policies of the...
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Religious Education in Catholic Schools: Troubling Times or Routine Ructions?
Does Religious EducationReligious Education have a future? It could be argued that in the contemporary Irish context, Religious EducationReligious...
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The Future of Glocal Education Politics
OECD’s knowledge-based regulation tools attempt to promote orthodox professional practice and increased standardisation of professional formation and...
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Research on Fundamental British Values
This chapter offers a review of the critical theoretical and empirical research produced in response to the civic nationalist turn in education...