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ERIC Number: EJ567880
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Exploring the Politics of Blame: School Inspection and Its Contestation in New Zealand and England.
Thrupp, Martin
Comparative Education, v34 n2 p195-209 Jun 1998
New Zealand's Education Review Office and England's Office for Standards in Education attempt to construct school failure as the clear responsibility of schools in order to gain ideological power as agents of accountability. These "politics of blame" are contested in both settings by an alternative "contextual" claim involving broader socioeconomic and political constraints on schools. Contains 76 references. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Education, Context Effect, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Ideology, Politics of Education, School Effectiveness, School Responsibility, Socioeconomic Influences
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Education Review Office (New Zealand); England; Neoconservatism; Neoliberalism; New Zealand; Office for Standards in Education (England)
Note: Theme issue: Special Number (20), "Comparative Perspectives in Education Policy."