‘Free, optional and adaptable’: Oak National Academy and the governing of teachers’ choices

FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 66 Number 1 (2024)

‘Free, optional and adaptable’: Oak National Academy and the governing of teachers’ choices
Patrick Yarker pages 100-114
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2024.66.1.10

Abstract

This article opens with two contrasting accounts of the provenance of Oak National Academy before tracing Oak’s controversial development as a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Education as a means (it is argued) of extending control not only over what teachers teach but over how they may teach it. 

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To cite this article
Patrick Yarker (2024) ‘Free, optional and adaptable’: Oak National Academy and the governing of teachers’ choices, FORUM, 66(1), 100-114. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.1.10

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