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Educational policy-making and hegemony: monolithic voices from civil society (2019)
Journal Article
McGrath, S., Karlidag-Dennis, E., & Stevenson, H. (2019). Educational policy-making and hegemony: monolithic voices from civil society. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(8), 1138-1153. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1647091

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.

Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities (2018)
Journal Article
Winchip, E., Stevenson, H., & Milner, A. (2019). Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities. Educational Review, 71(1), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2019.1524197

© 2018, © 2018 Educational Review. As the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) spreads, key questions that attempt to identify both the nature and the increasing scope and scale of this phenomenon become empirically significant. The concern of thi... Read More about Measuring privatisation in education: methodological challenges and possibilities.

Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England (2017)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J., Youens, B., & Stevenson, H. (2019). Silenced voices: the disappearance of the university and the student teacher in teacher education policy discourse in England. Research Papers in Education, 34(2), 153-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2017.1402084

© 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
King, F., & Stevenson, H. (2017). Generating change from below: what role for leadership from above?. Journal of Educational Administration, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/JEA-07-2016-0074

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
Stevenson, H. (2017). The “datafication” of teaching: can teachers speak back to the numbers?. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(4), 537-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2017.1349492

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
Stevenson, H. (2016). Challenging school reform from below: is leadership the missing link in mobilization theory?. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 15(1), 67-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2015.1071403

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
Stevenson, H. (2015). Teacher unionism in changing times: is this the real “new unionism”?. Journal of School Choice, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/15582159.2015.1080054

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”?.