Anxiety State: Fears for the Erosion of Comprehensive Schooling in Northern England and Alberta
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| Title: | Anxiety State: Fears for the Erosion of Comprehensive Schooling in Northern England and Alberta |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Hogan, Anna (ORCID |
| Source: | Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. 2022 52(4):618-635. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 18 |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Privatization, Public Schools, Equal Education, Institutional Autonomy, School Choice, Comprehensive Programs, Educational History, Inclusion, Access to Education, Democratic Values, Community |
| Geographic Terms: | Canada, United Kingdom (England) |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03057925.2020.1802700 |
| ISSN: | 0305-7925 |
| Abstract: | This paper uses Anderson's notion of 'imagined community' to argue that how people think about the publicness of their school system provides insight into the functioning and flourishing of communities, societies and nations. We focus on the privatisation of public schooling in Alberta, Canada and Northern England to highlight tensions between the provision of public schooling today and a romanticised, historical imagining of the public school providing equality and emancipation for all. We use data collected from 47 semi-structured interviews of education bureaucrats, union officials, school personnel and advocacy group members that asked about what constitutes 'publicness' within their system. Our analysis shows a tension between the realities of public systems opened up through market-oriented policies of 'autonomous' provision and stakeholders who still strongly believed in a public school system that was in the service of society, rather than the more individualist orientation of school choice and autonomy imaginaries. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2022 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1340784 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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