Inside the English education lab: Critical qualitative and ethnographic perspectives on the academies experiment

Front Matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Contributors -- List Of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- A Time And A Place: Doing Critical Qualitative And Ethnographic Work Across An Academised Educational Landscape -- Part I -- 'privatisation': Positioning Policies And Publics: Academies, Governance And Agency -- Academisation And The Law Of 'attraction': An Ethnographic Study Of Relays, Connective Strategies And Regulated Participation -- When The Mat Moves In: Implications For Legitimacy In Terms Of Governance And Local Agency -- Part Ii -- 'practice': Schooling The Body And Bodies In Schooling: Practice, Strategy And The Everyday -- Free Schools, Inclusion And Social Capital Of Children With Special Educational Needs And Disabilities -- The Great Education 'permanent Revolution'? Shape-shifting Academies And Degrees Of Change (and 'success') -- What 'these Kids' Need: Discipline, Misrecognition And Resistance In An English Academy School -- Part Iii -- 'reflexivity': In The Contours And On The Margins: Re-imagining The Academy -- Producing The Academy School: Ethnography, Foucault And The Study Of Policy Production -- The 'contradictory Space' Of The Entrepreneurial Academy: Critical Ethnography, Entrepreneurship Education And Inequalities -- Conclusion -- Embedding An Educational Settlement: Coercion, Contestation And Localised Struggles -- Afterword -- Polyvalent And Incoherent: The Academies Programme And The English Educational Apparatus -- Index. Edited By Christy Kulz, Kirsty Morrin And Ruth Mcginity. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.