‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges

Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of ‘scaling up’. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement ‘what works’ across all schools. In this paper, I use Bo...

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description Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of ‘scaling up’. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement ‘what works’ across all schools. In this paper, I use Bourdieu’s notions of misrecognition to consider the current orthodoxies of scaling up. I argue that the focus on ‘process’ and ‘implementation problems’: (1) both obscures and legitimates the ways in which the field logics of practice actually work and, (2) produces/reproduces the inequitable distribution of educational benefits (capitals and life opportunities). I suggest that the notion of misrecognition might provide a useful lens through which to examine reform initiatives and explanations of their success/failure.
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spelling nottingham-324552020-05-04T16:42:45Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32455/ ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges Thomson, Pat Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of ‘scaling up’. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement ‘what works’ across all schools. In this paper, I use Bourdieu’s notions of misrecognition to consider the current orthodoxies of scaling up. I argue that the focus on ‘process’ and ‘implementation problems’: (1) both obscures and legitimates the ways in which the field logics of practice actually work and, (2) produces/reproduces the inequitable distribution of educational benefits (capitals and life opportunities). I suggest that the notion of misrecognition might provide a useful lens through which to examine reform initiatives and explanations of their success/failure. Taylor & Francis 2014-02-26 Article PeerReviewed Thomson, Pat (2014) ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges. Critical Studies in Education, 55 (2). pp. 87-103. ISSN 1750-8495 Bourdieu educational leadership and management educational policy inclusive education special education http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17508487.2014.863221 doi:10.1080/17508487.2014.863221 doi:10.1080/17508487.2014.863221
spellingShingle Bourdieu
educational leadership and management
educational policy
inclusive education
special education
Thomson, Pat
‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
title ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
title_full ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
title_fullStr ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
title_full_unstemmed ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
title_short ‘Scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
title_sort ‘scaling up’ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
topic Bourdieu
educational leadership and management
educational policy
inclusive education
special education
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