PATRICIA THOMSON patricia.thomson@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Education
‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
Thomson, Pat
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Abstract
Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of ‘scaling up’. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement ‘what works’ across all schools. In this paper, I use Bourdieu’s notions of misrecognition to consider the current orthodoxies of scaling up. I argue that the focus on ‘process’ and ‘implementation problems’: (1) both obscures and legitimates the ways in which the field logics of practice actually work and, (2) produces/reproduces the inequitable distribution of educational benefits (capitals and life opportunities). I suggest that the notion of misrecognition might provide a useful lens through which to examine reform initiatives and explanations of their success/failure.
Citation
Thomson, P. (2014). ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges. Critical Studies in Education, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Feb 26, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Mar 22, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 22, 2016 |
Journal | Critical Studies in Education |
Print ISSN | 1750-8487 |
Electronic ISSN | 1750-8495 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 2 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221 |
Keywords | Bourdieu, educational leadership and management, educational policy, inclusive education, special education |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/722813 |
Publisher URL | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221 |
Additional Information | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Education on 26 Feb 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221 |
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