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Stories of Compliance and Subversion in a Prescriptive Policy Environment
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MacBeath, John – Educational Management, Administration, & Leadership, 2008
In their commitment to raising standards successive Conservative and Labour governments have moved progressively to tighter prescription of school policy and more far reaching proscription of practices deemed unacceptable. This article examines how 12 headteachers construct the policy environment and how they respond to it in the schools they…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Interviews