KS3/4 Wider curriculum choice : personalisation or social control? : a contemporary study of influences on Year 9 students’ decision-making in an English comprehensive school

This research concerns tensions between ‘personalisation’, a neo-liberal concept adapted by New Labour to empower and motivate students and ‘performativity’, an aspect of governance whereby institutional effectiveness is monitored by statistical outcomes. Their ambiguous reconciliation in Personalis...

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Main Author: Martin, Jennifer
Other Authors: Wood, Philip ; Lawson, Tony
Published: University of Leicester 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534061