This paper is an attempt to think aloud about the current policy proposals in circulation in England that address pre-service teacher education. Rather than dealing with details of policy and points of specificity in practice, the focus of this paper is with how propositions are justified and the overall ways in which meanings are being managed; a…

While a great deal of attention has been given to evaluating how well policies are implemented, that is, how well they are realised in practice, less attention has been paid to understanding and documenting the ways in which schools actually deal with the multiple, and sometimes opaque and contradictory demands of different "types" of…

This paper presents a first attempt in an ongoing research study of the policy environments in four UK secondary schools to examine policy enactment, where "enactment" refers to an understanding that policies are interpreted and "translated" by diverse policy actors in the school environment, rather than simply implemented. The paper is divided…

Examines ways in which policy is constructed in a UK multi-agency partnership established to challenge the exclusion of children from primary schools. Considers current social-exclusion policies focusing on problems and dilemmas of multi-agency partnerships. Drawing on data from one study, examines partnership in one specific context, combining…

In Britain, teaching is being reconstructed through a technicist and managerial perspective that bleaches out teachers'"authentic" voice. This paper focuses on a group of urban teachers' professional commitment and explores how teachers' viewpoints are infused with their class histories, class consciousness, and teaching experiences. (Contains 43…