Aiming for systemic change: the development of the agenda

Chapman, C. (2021) Aiming for systemic change: the development of the agenda. In: Chapman, C. and Ainscow, M. (eds.) Educational Equity: Pathways to Success. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 20-37. ISBN 9780367652043 (doi: 10.4324/9781003128359-2)

Abstract

In January 2013 the author was appointed as a Professor at the University of Glasgow to set up a new research center in the School of Education. The actual launch of the Robert Owen Centre took place in September 2013, when he/she became its Director. Instead, it depends on a whole range of interacting processes that reach into the school from outside. Academies were launched in the year 2001 with the aim of replacing inner-city secondary schools that were defined as requiring ‘special measures’ as a result of being inspected. What was distinctive about the early academies was that, although they were state-funded, they became autonomous from local authority control, had their own sponsor, and were given greater freedom regarding the national curriculum and national agreements on teachers’ pay and conditions. The concern with beyond-school factors was central to ‘Children’s Communities’, another Manchester initiative that was to later influence the development of the work in Glasgow.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Chapman, Professor Christopher
• Authors: Chapman, C.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education; College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Educational Leadership & Policy
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9780367652043
• Published Online: 14 July 2021