Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: List of figures and tables ix -- List of contributors xi -- List of abbreviations xv -- Introduction: The performing school: managing, -- teaching and learning in a performance culture 1 -- DENIS GLEESON AND CHRIS HUSBANDS --PART I : Liontamers and jugglers?: Challenges and opportunities in managing the performing school 5 -- 1 Managing 'performance' in the performing school: The impacts of performance management on schools under regulation 7 -- CHRIS HUSBANDS -- 2 Managing performance management in the performing school 20 -- DAVID GENTLE -- 3 A right performance 33 -- RICHARD ARROWSMITH -- 4 Towards professional learning communities?: Teacher development and teacher culture in performance management 44 -- MERYL THOMPSON -- PART II : Highwire artists and acrobats?: Professional cultures and school contexts 67 -- 5 Teachers and the myth of modernisation 69 -- MARTIN MERSON -- 6 Teachers' lives and teaching performance 86 -- PAT SIKES -- 7 Developing teachers in a performance culture: Is performance-related pay the answer? 101 -- LINDA EVANS -- 8 A culture of teaching 'under new management' 118 -- JOHN SMYTH --PART III : Ringmasters and big tops? Performance and performativity in policy frameworks 137 -- 9 The performing school and the modernisation of teachers 139 -- DENIS GLEESON AND HELEN GUNTER -- 10 Teacher professionalism in new times 159 -- GEOFF WHITTY -- 11 Performing and conforming 174 -- PAT, MAHONY AND IAN HEXTALL -- 12 Characteristics of performative cultures: Their central paradoxes and limitations as resources for educational reform 192 -- JOHN ELLIOTT -- 13 Performativities and fabrications in the education economy: Towards the performative society 210 -- STEPHEN BALL --Conclusion: An agenda for action and evidence-related policy 227 -- DENIS GLEESON AND CHRIS HUSBANDS -- Index 230.

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