Machine generated contents note: List of figures and tables ix
List of contributors xi
List of abbreviations xv
Introduction: The performing school: managing,
teaching and learning in a performance culture 1
DENIS GLEESON AND CHRIS HUSBANDS
PART I : Liontamers and jugglers?: Challenges and opportunities in managing the performing school 5
1 Managing 'performance' in the performing school: The impacts of performance management on schools under regulation 7
CHRIS HUSBANDS
2 Managing performance management in the performing school 20
DAVID GENTLE
3 A right performance 33
RICHARD ARROWSMITH
4 Towards professional learning communities?: Teacher development and teacher culture in performance management 44
MERYL THOMPSON
PART II : Highwire artists and acrobats?: Professional cultures and school contexts 67
5 Teachers and the myth of modernisation 69
MARTIN MERSON
6 Teachers' lives and teaching performance 86
PAT SIKES
7 Developing teachers in a performance culture: Is performance-related pay the answer? 101
LINDA EVANS
8 A culture of teaching 'under new management' 118
JOHN SMYTH
PART III : Ringmasters and big tops? Performance and performativity in policy frameworks 137
9 The performing school and the modernisation of teachers 139
DENIS GLEESON AND HELEN GUNTER
10 Teacher professionalism in new times 159
GEOFF WHITTY
11 Performing and conforming 174
PAT, MAHONY AND IAN HEXTALL
12 Characteristics of performative cultures: Their central paradoxes and limitations as resources for educational reform 192
JOHN ELLIOTT
13 Performativities and fabrications in the education economy: Towards the performative society 210
STEPHEN BALL
Conclusion: An agenda for action and evidence-related policy 227
DENIS GLEESON AND CHRIS HUSBANDS
Index 230.
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