Inspection and the fabrication of professional and performative processes |
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Authors: | Jane Perryman |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Education , University of London , London, UK j.perryman@ioe.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This paper is about the issue of the performance of inspection. Based on research conducted in an English secondary school in the years following its time under Special Measures, I discuss the idea that during an inspection the school becomes focussed around performing for inspection. I discuss performance theory here as well as notions of performativity. I set the scene with middle and senior managers' recollections of life under Special Measures, in effect the time in which they learnt to perform. I then use data from time spent in the school before and during the school's OfSTED inspection, and discuss inspection as performance. |
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Keywords: | inspection schools performativity normalisation fabrication |
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