The politics of scale in policy : scalecraft and education governance /
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; The Politics of Scale in Policy; Copyright page; Table of contents; About the author; Foreword; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Policy, scale and the importance of space; The book's approach to space and policy; Lost in space: the difficulty of engaging with the spatial; A focus on education policy and governance; Outline of the book; 2 Problematising scale in the study of policy; Assumptions of scale in the study of policy; Rethinking scale in policy: a turn to political geography; Critical policy studies and scale; Scalecraft: a critical approach to scale in policy studies
- Political discourse theory: key featuresScalecraft and the study of hegemony; 3 Exposing scale hegemonies; Education governance and politics of scale; Revealing scale hegemonies: the case of education and the European project; A genealogical perspective; Case study: scale hegemonies in European education governance; Implications for conceptualising European governance; 4 Knowledge, policy and scale; European governance, knowledge and scale; The politics of scale in the ET 2020 framework; Individual versus collective; Context versus universal; Experience versus learning
- Reforms versus agenda-settingImplications of scalar dichotomies in ET 2020; Scalar politics of best practices: ET 2020 Working Group meetings; A depoliticised policy environment; Different contexts, common challenges; Generalisability and transferability of best practice knowledge; Fantasmatic logic of learning; Reflections on scalecraft, knowledge and policy; 5 Hegemonies of statecraft and scale; Statecraft and education systems; Statecraft and the local: the case of localism; The politics of scale in localism: the governance of England's school system
- Diversifying England's school system: academies and free schoolsScalecrafting the local; Trapped in the local: experiences of academy school reform; Eastshire: a brief context; Logics of the local: greater choice; Logics of the local: collaboration between schools; Logics of the local: pursuing the interests of the school; Scalecraft as a hegemonic strategy of statecraft; 6 Spatial entrepreneurs and scalecraft; Implementing England's academies policy: the case of Northwestern; The Northwestern Academies Model; Scalecraft and spatial entrepreneurship in Northwestern
- Spatial entrepreneurship of local authority officersExpanding scalecraft visions beyond the local authority; Academies in Northwestern: frontline work, scalecraft, and resistance; Spatial entrepreneurship: a new dimension of frontline work; 7 The practice of scalecraft; Reflections on policy, scale and hegemony; The practice of scalecraft: key features; Techniques of scalecraft; Scalecraft and affect; Politicisation and depoliticisation; Scalecraft practices and the role of agency; Contributions of scalecraft; Methodological contribution to the critical logics approach