School Building Redesign: Everyday spaces, transformational policy discourses

John Horton; Peter Kraftl

doi:10.4324/9780203127568

School Building Redesign: Everyday spaces, transformational policy discourses

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In this chapter, we suggest that in the last two decades, the process and possibility of educational transformation has been articulated and politicised in a very particular way, in many parts of the world, through what we term Transformational (with capital ‘T’) policy discourses. In the chapter, we outline some characteristics of Transformational policy discourses, as exemplified some recent national programmes of school (re)building and (re)design. The main body of the chapter reflects upon research exploring one policy programme of this kind: the UK Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. In effect, the chapter contrasts the explicitly Transformational promise of this programme versus how it unfolded in practice in everyday spaces of education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Changing Spaces of Education: New Perspectives on the Nature of Learning
Editors	Rachel Brooks, Alison Fuller, Johanna Waters
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	7
Pages	114-134
Number of pages	21
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9780203127568
ISBN (Print)	9780415672221, 9780415672214
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203127568
Publication status	Published - 10 May 2012

Keywords

School building
Everyday spaces
Spaces
Building
Transformational
Policy
Disourses

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