Andrew Clapham | Schools Week

Sussex governors’ strike threat is “innovative governance”

There are three types of governance, says Andrew Clapham. So where do the governors in West Sussex who are threatening strike action fit in? A school governor has an important job that takes skill and commitment – and is time-consuming and unpaid. Major concerns regarding school governance have been raised recently, such as in the […]

The battle for informal learning

What have you been working on? I’ve been talking to teachers who are working to provide informal science teaching for students in extra-curricular clubs. I wanted to understand their motivation and their struggle. From a broader perspective, my aim is to look at education policy and try to find how it plays out in teachers’ […]

Andrew Clapham – Legitimation, performativity and the tyranny of a ‘hijacked’ word

Principal lecturer, School of Education, Nottingham Trent University What research are you working on? We’ve been looking at what “outstanding” means. We started off to try and pin down what it meant. We found that part of that is the word outstanding equals Ofsted, and interestingly that was for both teachers and students. The research […]