Devolving practices: managing the managers

Autor:	Paul Thomas, Helen Lucas, Brigid Limerick, Daphne Meadmore
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Government business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Principal (computer security) Subject (philosophy) Organizational culture Public administration Public relations Object (philosophy) Devolution Education Documentation State (polity) Sociology business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Education Policy. 10:399-411
ISSN:	1464-5106 0268-0939
DOI:	10.1080/0268093950100406
Popis:	Devolution is a management technology which is currently ‘transforming’ the State Department of Education in Queensland, Australia. This paper presents an analysis of the research findings of a study centred on the daily practices of one woman principal contextualised in the web of documentation in which she operates in this new corporate culture. A Foucauldian theoretical framework of ‘governmentality’ has been used in order to analyse the competing discourses of devolution as experienced at a particular site. The analysis positions practices of devolution not as a possible liberating technology, nor as a negative control mechanism, but rather as an administrative strategy which aims to ‘know’ schools and their populations in specific and calculated ways as a requirement of modern government. The paper considers the positioning of one particular school as subject and object of the discourse of devolution. It argues that while it is possible for a principal to mediate the discourse, there are par...
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