Engaging parents in multi academy trusts (MATs) as local civic knowledge experts

IF 2.5 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Karen Broadhurst Healey
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Parental engagement in multi-academy trusts’ (MATs) governance structures and activities is contemporarily constructed in policy as mattering less than engagement by professionalised governors and trustees, and in much of the literature as deficient for operationalising MAT accountability in a public education system. This article problematises the role of local parental engagement in MATs in a depoliticised context to explore an alternative conceptualisation responding to this democratic deficit. A single case study combined with narrative inquiry sought experience beyond the meta-narrative and Gunter and Ribben's conceptual frame of ‘knowledge, knowers and knowing’ provided a lens for interpreting data. Analysis identified that parental engagement was seen as a commodity in the justification of professional's decisions and an opportunity to normalise parent thinking and practices when engaging with the academy trust. Analysis of parents’ stories provided an alternative conceptualisation of parental engagement recognising their agency and contribution to knowledge production through their civic expertise.
让家长作为当地公民知识专家参与多学院信托(MAT)
父母参与多学院信托(MAT)的治理结构和活动,在政策上被认为比专业化的管理者和受托人的参与更重要,在许多文献中被认为不足以在公共教育系统中实施MAT问责制。本文在非政治化的背景下,对当地父母参与MAT的作用提出了问题,以探索应对这种民主赤字的替代概念。一项结合叙事探究的个案研究寻求元叙事之外的经验,冈特和里本的“知识、知晓者和知晓”概念框架为解释数据提供了视角。分析表明,父母的参与被视为职业决策正当性的商品,也是在与学院信托合作时使父母思维和实践正常化的机会。对父母故事的分析提供了父母参与的另一种概念,承认他们通过公民专业知识对知识生产的能动性和贡献。
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Management in Education
Management in Education Social Sciences-Education
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3.00
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7.70%
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28
期刊介绍: Management in Education provides a forum for debate and discussion covering all aspects of educational management. We therefore welcome a range of articles from those dealing with day-to-day management to those related to national policy issues. Our peer review policy helps to enhance the range and quality of the articles accepted supporting those new to publication and those that are more expereienced authors. We publish research findings, opinion pieces and individual stories and our contributors come from all sectors of education.
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