Embedding Democratic Engagement in School Leadership: comprehensive schooling structures in an academised system
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 60 Number 2 (2018)
Embedding Democratic Engagement in School Leadership: comprehensive schooling structures in an academised system
ANDREW ALLEN, NIGEL GANN pages 217-228
DOI: 10.15730/forum.2018.60.2.217
Abstract
This article describes how a gaping democratic deficit has emerged in the English schools system as both local authorities and school governing bodies have been degraded by academisation. In arguing that a comprehensive school can only be truly comprehensive if it is based on democratic principles, the authors make the case for re-establishing democracy in state education by developing democratic governance structures at school level, and nesting these in a system of Local Education Boards.
To cite this article
ANDREW ALLEN, NIGEL GANN (2018) Embedding Democratic Engagement in School Leadership: comprehensive schooling structures in an academised system, FORUM, 60(2), 217-228. https://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2018.60.2.217