ERIC Number: EJ1397276
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-0962-0214
EISSN: EISSN-1747-5066
Enacting School Self-Evaluation: The Policy Actors in Irish Schools
International Studies in Sociology of Education, v32 n3 p694-716 2023
School self-evaluation is a low-stakes policy recently mandated in Ireland and while schools are becoming more consistent in engaging in this internal mode of evaluation, their engagement has not been uniform. This paper provides new ways of thinking about, understanding, and explaining how school self-evaluation plays out in Irish schools. Subscribing to the view that policies are not simply implemented but enacted through the creative processes of interpretation and translation, this paper shows how school self-evaluation is performed in Irish schools in various ways by various people. We identify numerous policy actors in our qualitative data: narrators, entrepreneurs, outsiders, transactors, enthusiasts, translators, critics, and receivers. This assortment of actors helps to bring school self-evaluation to life but as it comprises heterogeneous entities with varying characteristics, levels of experience, and motivations it is simply not possible for this policy to be implemented in schools as policymakers envisage.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Groups), Educational Policy, Inspection, Secondary Schools, Community Schools, Entrepreneurship, Consultants, Unions, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland
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