Election or Selection? School Autonomy Reform, Governance and the Politics of School Councils

Autor/inn/en	Blackmore, Jill; MacDonald, Katrina; Keddie, Amanda; Gobby, Brad; Wilkinson, Jane; Eacott, Scott; Niesche, Richard
Titel	Election or Selection? School Autonomy Reform, Governance and the Politics of School Councils
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 38 (2023) 4, S.547-566 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Blackmore, Jill) ORCID (MacDonald, Katrina) ORCID (Keddie, Amanda) ORCID (Gobby, Brad) ORCID (Wilkinson, Jane) ORCID (Eacott, Scott) ORCID (Niesche, Richard)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2021.2022766
Schlagwörter	Governance; Educational Change; Social Justice; Advisory Committees; Neoliberalism; Educational Policy; Institutional Autonomy; Democratic Values; Parent Participation; School Administration; Accountability; Marketing; Stakeholders; Public Education; Policy Analysis; Parent School Relationship; Disadvantaged Schools; Foreign Countries; Participative Decision Making; Parent Attitudes; Principals; Personnel Selection; Politics of Education; Expertise; Barriers; Elementary Secondary Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Bildungsreform; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Beratungsstelle; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Politics of education; Institutionelle Autonomie; Elternmitwirkung; Verantwortung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Politikfeldanalyse; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung; Ausland; Elternverhalten; Principal; Schulleiter; Personalauswahl; Personalentscheidung; Expert appraisal; Australien
Abstract	Neoliberal policies promoting school autonomy reform in Australia and internationally have, over three decades, appropriated earlier social democratic discourses of parental participation and partnership in school governance. Recent school autonomy reforms have repositioned school council/boards within a narrow frame of accountability and management operating in marketized systems of education. This paper considers the perceptions of 12 stakeholders in public education across four Australian states of how the latest school autonomy reform policies, including Independent Public Schools, supports corporatized and seemingly depoliticised repositioning of school councils. This data indicates there is a shift from elected parental representation to principal selection of 'skill-based' community members, with the greatest implications for those schools in disadvantaged communities experiencing difficulties gaining voluntary parental participation. We offer new theoretical insights into the links between school autonomy, governance, the role and composition of school boards and social justice informed by Nancy Fraser's theorising of social justice. We identify an emerging tension between first, parent movements as counter publics claiming participatory parity in decision-making in school councils; and secondly, principal selection of self-interested and politically influential actors onto school councils, potentially politicising school councils. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01