It’s not over, not over, not over, not over yet: resistance to academisation from the inside
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 64 Number 2 (2022)
It’s not over, not over, not over, not over yet: resistance to academisation from the inside
Kathryn Spicksley pages 44-55
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2022.64.2.04
Abstract
Since 2002, the number of academy schools in England has increased – first gradually and then, since the 2010 Academies Act, rapidly. For some, a full academisation of the school system in England appears inevitable. In this paper, however, I explore how new teachers and senior leaders within academy primary schools quietly resist identifying as academy teachers, and in doing so resist the wider process of academisation. This resistance gives those who are opposed to academisation hope that another future is possible, one in which academisation is stalled and perhaps reversed.
To cite this article
Kathryn Spicksley (2022) It’s not over, not over, not over, not over yet: resistance to academisation from the inside, FORUM, 64(2), 44-55. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2022.64.2.04