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Academies : Diversity, economism and contending forces for change
Woods, Philip (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)The focus of this chapter is the UK government’s academies programme in England and the contending forces that characterise this key policy aimed at bringing about transformational change in education. First, a brief outline ... -
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 ... -
Against Ideology: Democracy and the human interaction sphere
Woods, Philip (Routledge, 2016-04-28)This chapter argues that democracy should not be seen as an ideology and that it is important to to be explicit about why this is the case. Its specific focus is the notion of holistic democracy. A distinction is drawn ... -
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, ... -
Anchoring Leadership [keynote introduction]
Woods, Philip (2012)In this Introduction, I examine what accumulating research evidence appears to be telling us about leadership and about flatter organisational structures and the restructuring of leadership into more distributed patterns. ... -
Authenticity in the bureau-enterprise culture: the struggle for authentic meaning
Woods, Philip (2007)This article emphasises the extent to which conceptions of authenticity are forged through social interaction and socially mediated identities and how, in turn, authentic leadership involves the transformation of the ... -
Authority, Power and Distributed Leadership
Woods, Philip (2016-10-18)A much greater understanding is needed of power in the practice of distributed leadership. This article explores how the concept of social authority might be helpful in achieving this. It suggests that the practice of ... -
Autonomy and Regulation in the School System in England
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Jarvis, Joy; Culshaw, Suzanne (Springer Nature, 2020-05-29)The chapter examines the school system in England, concentrating on developments since 2010. During this period, a radical refashioning of the school system in England has taken place as large numbers of schools have moved ... -
Autonomy, Leadership and Leadership Development in England’s School System
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Jarvis, Joy; Culshaw, Suzanne (2021-03-15)The policy context for schools in England places great emphasis on leadership and autonomy as drivers of educational improvement. The purpose of this article is to explore how we can better understand, in this context, the ... -
Bringing Research and Practice Together to Examine Student Voice : A commentary from BELMAS
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A Co-operative Response to Entrepreneurial and Competitive Pressures
Woods, Philip (Routledge, 2015-08-13)Is innovation in contemporary education inevitably subject to the private and business orientated values of entrepreneurialism? The question is a challenge for school leaders who value the ethics of collaboration and ... -
Co-operativism as an Alternative : Choice, assimilation and challenge
Woods, Philip (Routledge, 2015)The growth of co-operative schools is a promising and exciting development in the diverse school system that is unfolding in England. It challenges assumptions of individualism and the economic model of private competitive ... -
Collaboration: the big new idea for school improvement?
Evans, J.; Castle, F.; Cooper, D.; Glatter, R.; Woods, Philip (2005-03)This paper traces the trajectory of New Labour education policy since the formation of the first New Labour government in 1997. During that time the policy discourse has moved from a position of individualized school ... -
Collaborative School Leadership in a Global Society: A critical perspective’
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda (2019-09-01)In the context of evolving global challenges and opportunities, this article explores the kind of leadership that moves beyond the philosophy of dependence which pervades many of the everyday assumptions of educational ... -
Collaborative School Leadership: A critical guide
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda (SAGE Publications, 2018-02)Schools need to respond to rising expectations and the imperative to release the creativity of educators and learners to achieve more socially just education. Yet, strongly hierarchical structures and reliance on the idea ... -
Collaborative Teacher Learning: Cases from the HertsCam Network
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Chivers, Leo (Centre for Educational Leadership, UH, 2016)The cases in this report – from the UK and Bosnia – provide accounts of innovative and successful ways of teachers working collaboratively and exercising leadership to enhance their own learning and development and that ... -
Constructions and Purposes of School Leadership in the UK
Woods, Philip; Torrance, Deidre; Donnelly, Caitlin; Hamilton, Tom; Jones, Ken; Potter, Ian (2021-03-15)This article offers a comparative analysis and interpretation of leadership in the four UK education jurisdictions (Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland), informed by the articles in this special issue and by a ... -
Current Challenges to Educational Leadership & Administration: An International Survey Report on the Pilot Survey
Woods, Philip; Roberts, Amanda; Culshaw, Suzanne (University Council for Educational Administration, 2018) -
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 ...