All Outputs (17)

On education and the role of intellectuals (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, Gramsci’s key ideas relating to education are presented. Central to Gramsci’s thinking was the relationship between education and political change, and much of his own political activity was defined by his integration of intellectual... Read More about On education and the role of intellectuals.

Antonio Gramsci: his life and ideas (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents a brief intellectual biography of Antonio Gramsci to show both the breadth of his intellectual thinking and the important links between his intellectual contribution and his political activism. The chapter begins with an overvie... Read More about Antonio Gramsci: his life and ideas.

Gramsci's contemporary relevance: working ‘in and against’ the neoliberal state (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the intention is to connect Gramsci’ intellectual legacy with the contemporary contexts and issues, and to respond to the cultural theorist Stuart Hall’s exhortation to ‘think our problems in a Gramscian way’. The chapter opens by se... Read More about Gramsci's contemporary relevance: working ‘in and against’ the neoliberal state.

Education and transformation: rethinking educational leadership (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, key ideas relating to educational leadership, and specifically transformational leadership, are presented. Transformational leadership as presented within mainstream educational leadership and management literature is critiqued as co... Read More about Education and transformation: rethinking educational leadership.

Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities (2023)
Book Chapter

Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, the experience of Europe’s largest education union, the UK’s National Education Union (NEU), is explored as an exercise in union renewal focused on developing a counter-hegemonic response to the neoliberal restructuring of the Englis... Read More about Challenging the neoliberal restructuring of public education : Union renewal and counter-hegemony from below.

The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, we analyse education reform in England over a period of more than half a century. Progressive advance in the post-war years posed a serious threat to the status and stability of dominant groups, so there has taken place a sustained e... Read More about The passive revolution in English school reform : Hegemony from above.

Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas (2023)
Book

This insightful book explores the life and ideas of Italian Marxist theoretician Antonio Gramsci, and argues his work has considerable contemporary relevance when re-considering educational leadership in today’s age of crises. Gramsci’s theory of... Read More about Educational Leadership and Antonio Gramsci: The Organising of Ideas.

Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers (2023)
Book

The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today. This... Read More about Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers.

Towards A Framework Of Action On The Attractiveness Of The Teaching Profession Through Effective Social Dialogue in Education (2023)
Report

European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management (2022)
Report

Educational policy-making and hegemony: monolithic voices from civil society (2019)
Journal Article

This article discusses the changes in basic education in Turkey, with a particular focus on religious education and its ramifications for the education system. The latest education reform, 4+4+4 (or 4+), the largest education reform in recent Turkish... Read More about Educational policy-making and hegemony: monolithic voices from civil society.

Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England (2017)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The teacher preparation landscape in England has been subject to radical policy change. Since 2010, the policy agenda has repositioned initial teacher preparation as a craft best... Read More about Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England.

Generating change from below: what role for leadership from above? (2017)
Journal Article

In recent years the benefits of distributed leadership have often assumed the status of an unchallengeable orthodoxy. There is a general acceptance that leadership is best when it is dispersed. In reality this is often little more than a form of ‘li... Read More about Generating change from below: what role for leadership from above?.

The “datafication” of teaching: can teachers speak back to the numbers? (2017)
Journal Article

Teachers face considerable and increasing pressure in their working lives. Labor intensification compels teachers to work faster, harder, and longer. However, teachers also experience increasing external control over what they teach and how they teac... Read More about The “datafication” of teaching: can teachers speak back to the numbers?.

Challenging school reform from below: is leadership the missing link in mobilization theory? (2016)
Journal Article

This article presents research relating to the experiences of union and community-based campaigns that have sought to challenge the establishment of academy and free schools in England. Such schools are removed from local government control and are s... Read More about Challenging school reform from below: is leadership the missing link in mobilization theory?.

Teacher unionism in changing times: is this the real “new unionism”? (2015)
Journal Article

This article provides a case study of union change in an environment in which radical school restructuring is taking place, and active strategies to weaken and marginalize organized teachers are being pursued by the state. The case study union is the... Read More about Teacher unionism in changing times: is this the real “new unionism”?.