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Academy schools and entrepreneurialism in education
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J.; Gunter, H. (2007)The academy schools programme in England is presented by Government as the means by which increased diversity and private participation in the provision of public education can be used to solve educational and wider social ... -
Alternative education for the 21st Century : Philosophies, approaches, visions
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)This text comprises an innovative collection of leading examples of threads of education that are grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures. This ranges from schemes to make more democratic schools, through Quaker, ... -
Day of dialogue : research priorities from the researching academies conference
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2009)The Researching Academies Conference, hosted by the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham on 12 November last year and organised by the authors, was a unique one-day event, funded as part of a research project (a ... -
Deepening Distributed Leadership : A democratic perspective on power, purpose and the concept of the self
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2013)Distributed leadership is a model of leadership that has much relevance to leadership of educational institutions. Its meaning and potential need to be carefully and critically considered, however. The focus of this article ... -
Degrees of Democracy Framework : A Review of its Use and Impact
Woods, Glenys J.; Woods, Philip (University of Hertfordshire, 2013-05)The degrees of democracy framework (DoDF) was designed as an analytical research instrument that could also be used to facilitate reflection and dialogue by anyone concerned with education (school leaders, teachers, students, ... -
Degrees of School Democracy : A holistic framework
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2012)This article outlines an analytical framework which enables analysis of degrees of democracy in a school or other organisational setting. It is founded in a holistic conception of democracy, which is a model of working ... -
Democracy and spiritual awareness : interconnections and implications for educational leadership
Woods, Glenys J.; Woods, Philip (2008)This article sets out theorisations of developmental democracy and spiritual awareness formulated in previous work by the authors. These are used to explore collegial leadership in a case study Steiner school, with the aim ... -
The geography of reflective leadership : the inner life of democratic learning communities
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2010)This article argues the philosophical case for broadening the concept and practice of reflective leadership to embrace spiritual learning. It was given the best paper award when presented at the International Philosophy ... -
Headteachers’ Professional Development : Provision, Barriers and Needs
Woods, Philip; Cowie, M.; Woods, Glenys J. (Learning and Teaching Scotland, 2007) -
Lighting the fires of entrepreneurialism? : Constructions of meaning in an English inner city academy
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2011)Entrepreneurialism and entrepreneurial leadership are increasingly viewed as essential to improving the capability of organisations to innovate and improve performance. This article aims to refine the conceptual understanding ... -
Newness Against the Grain: Democratic emergence in organisational and professional practice
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Woods, Glenys J. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2019-01-17)What is the nature of democratic innovation in a performative culture? The purpose of this chapter is to help answer this question by giving conceptual substance to the notion of democratic emergence as a specific kind of ... -
Observations on Academies : Evidence to the National Audit Office
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2009-12-02) -
Steiner Schools in England
Woods, Philip; Ashley, Martin; Woods, Glenys J. (University of the West of England, 2005)The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) commissioned a research project to comprehensively map Steiner school education in England, identify and investigate good practice, explore the differences and commonalities ... -
"Tears, laughter, camaraderie" : professional development for headteachers
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J.; Cowie, M. (2009)This article reports and interprets the findings of a study of headteachers' views and perceptions of continuing professional development (CPD) provision and their ongoing CPD needs and priorities, carried out in 2007 in ... -
Testing a typology of entrepreneurialism : emerging findings from an academy with an enterprise specialism
Woods, Philip; Woods, Glenys J. (2009)Based on initial analyses of a case study of an Academy with a specialism in business and enterprise,1 this article examines how the Academy appears to be constructing meanings around enterprise.2 It tests the usefulness ...