A "Fresh Start" for a "Failing School"? A Qualitative Study

Autor/in	Araujo, Marta
Titel	A "Fresh Start" for a "Failing School"? A Qualitative Study
Quelle	In: British Educational Research Journal, 35 (2009) 4, S.599-617 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-1926
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Accountability; Academic Standards; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Politics of Education; Educational Innovation; Educational Change; Educational Environment; Program Descriptions; Government Role; Elementary Schools; Problems; Educational Improvement; Improvement Programs; Failure; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Verantwortung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Educational policy; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Problemsituation; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Effizienzsteigerung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper examines "Fresh Start," a New Labour flagship initiative to raise education "standards" in a radical and innovative way. Drawing on a qualitative study of a comprehensive school in England, I argue that the initiative added to the problems faced by the "failing school" and promoted rather traditional ways of raising "standards" due to the close surveillance that Fresh Start schools were subjected to. In the case studied, the needs of the pupils that the initiative was meant to address were being sacrificed in the school's construction of a "successful" identity. While the initiative has now lost momentum, some lessons can still be Lent. This paper illustrates the complexity of creating a new school, as well as the need to attend to the specificities of the local context and experiences in raising "standards for all" pupils. (Contains 1 table and 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10