eprintid: 10159010
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datestamp: 2022-11-11 13:47:45
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creators_name: Jones, Bronwen MA
creators_name: Bradbury, Alice
title: Policy disruptors or entrepreneurs? The tensions emerging from a network of philosophy educators
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
keywords: Neoliberalism, Heterarchies, Network governance, Dispositif, Philosophy education
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abstract: In this article we examine a network of philosophical and critical thinking ‘policy entrepreneurs’ (Ball and Junemann, 2012) and consider to what extent they operate as conduits of or challenges to a neoliberal discourse of education. The neoliberalization of education has brought about a new mode of heterarchical network governance in education where the traditional hierarchical power of the state and local authorities has dissipated, and new policy actors have emerged. We ask whether it is possible for alternative ‘grass roots’ networks to operate within this quintessentially neoliberal framework of heterarchical network governance to challenge neoliberal discourses of education (Ball and Junemann, 2012). In considering the space that network governance potentially opens up for challenges to neoliberal orthodoxies, we are trying to take the study of network governance in a new and different direction. We draw on Foucault's notion of the dispositif to probe the tensions that exist as members of this 'philosophers’ network' operate as both advocates of an alternative progressive pedagogy disrupting key tenets of neoliberal thinking on education and neoliberal entrepreneurial subjects who embrace and benefit from a system of heterarchical networks and justify their alternative approach in distinctly neoliberal terms. This research points to the complexity of the relationship between network governance and wider forms of neoliberal governance.
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102087
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1987304
doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102087
lyricists_name: Bradbury, Alice
lyricists_id: ABRAD72
actors_name: Bradbury, Alice
actors_id: ABRAD72
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: International Journal of Educational Research
volume: 116
article_number: 102087
issn: 0883-0355
citation:        Jones, Bronwen MA;    Bradbury, Alice;      (2022)    Policy disruptors or entrepreneurs? The tensions emerging from a network of philosophy educators.                   International Journal of Educational Research , 116     , Article 102087.  10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102087 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102087>.       Green open access   
 
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