Turning around coast-based schools: An interpretive narrative analysis of a report on school reform in English coastal communities

IF 1.1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
A. Parfitt
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An interpretive narrative inquiry approach is adopted to shed light on the improvement agendas applied in a specific set of coastal schools. The unifying thread between the focal cases is that they had been designated as failures and made notorious through association with their communities’ tainted reputations. These schools feature in a report published by the Future Leaders Trust, which is used as the resource for this paper. The taken for granted deficit discourses implicit in the accounts of how these schools were reformed are relied upon by the school leaders and other stakeholders to justify why they needed to be turned around. These assumptions that come to the fore through analysis, demonstrate that the socioeconomic contexts found in the jaded English coastal communities are not engaged with. Importing approaches that draw on communities’ resistance to relegation could, potentially, build positive discourses that lead to communities reclaiming educational opportunities in such schools, one clear example being that of Countesthorpe in Leicestershire, UK, in the 1970s.
沿海学校的转型:英国沿海社区学校改革报告的解释性叙事分析
一种解释性的叙事调查方法被采用,以阐明在一组特定的沿海学校应用的改进议程。这些焦点案例的共同点是,它们都被认定为失败案例,并因其所在社区的不良声誉而声名狼藉。未来领袖信托基金(Future Leaders Trust)发布的一份报告中提到了这些学校,这份报告是本文的参考资料。学校领导和其他利益相关者依赖于这些学校如何改革的描述中隐含的想当然的赤字论述,来证明为什么需要扭转局面。这些通过分析得出的假设表明,在疲惫不堪的英国沿海社区中发现的社会经济背景并没有参与其中。引入利用社区对降级的抵制的方法,可能会建立积极的话语,导致社区在这样的学校重新获得教育机会,一个明显的例子是20世纪70年代英国莱斯特郡的Countesthorpe。
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Improving Schools
Improving Schools EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: Improving Schools is for all those engaged in school development, whether improving schools in difficulty or making successful schools even better. The journal includes contributions from across the world with an increasingly international readership including teachers, heads, academics, education authority staff, inspectors and consultants. Improving Schools has created a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences. Major national policies and initiatives have been evaluated, to share good practice and to highlight problems. The journal also reports on visits to successful schools in diverse contexts, and includes book reviews on a wide range of developmental issues.
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