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'Untangling the Entangled Knot': A Critical and Genealogical Examination of Multi-Academy Trusts' (MATs) Ideologies, Power and Governance in England
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Andrew Pennington; Feng Su; Margaret Wood – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The reduction in local control and oversight of schooling represented by the growth of Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) in England raises critical issues for public policy. These include the articulation and exercise of power in the governance of MATs, the future of democratic governance of local services and accountability. Applying Foucault's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Trusts (Financial), Educational Policy
Academisation, Neoliberal Technologies of Governance and the Rapid Growth of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in England
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Andrew Pennington; Feng Su; Margaret Wood – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Academisation of schooling in England is a significant development with consequences for the disavowal of the role of community and democracy in education at the local level and wider resonance for geo-policy jurisdictions where neoliberal education reforms play out. This study analyses the operation of power and control of Multi Academy Trust…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Neoliberalism, Accountability, Governing Boards