Online book launch - Modernising school governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education (Routledge 2016) (original) (raw)

Review of Modernising School Governance: Corporate Planning and Expert Handling in State Education

Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2017

Wilkins, A. (2016). Modernising school governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education. New York, NY: Routledge. 172 pp., ISBN-9781138787476.Modernising School Governance: Corporate Planning and Expert Handling in State Educationis a part of Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics series which aims to enhance readers understanding of key challenges and facilitate on-going academic debate within the influential and growingfield of education policy and politics by Routledge. Andrew Wilkings, the author, is a senior lecturer in Education Studies at the University of East London. Modernising School Governance is a product of a three-year project conducted between 2012 –2015and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in England.

Boundary crossing in school governing bodies: Perspectives from the business community

Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018

Policy changes to school governance have led to Governing Bodies (GBs) increasingly appointing skilled professionals from the business community. Research into these GBs views governors from business as a threat to lay governors and the stakeholder model. Whilst there has been exploration of the contributions of business governors, the ways in which business volunteers develop into their new roles as business governors have not been captured. This article is drawn from an evaluation of Lloyds Banking Group’s (LBG) school governance programme where 18 LBG employees were interviewed throughout the first year in their governor roles. Adapting Young’s categorisation of knowledge as ‘managerial’, ‘educational’ and ‘lay’, this article articulates how LBG governors acquired ‘educational’ and ‘lay’ knowledge to transform their practices and how this was underpinned by ‘authenticity’ associated with the stakeholder model. The article presents perspectives from other GB stakeholders which sug...