Session Information
23 SES 10 C, Governing by Inspection
Symposium
Contribution
Inspectors are responsible for ensuring that (shifting) accountability requirements are met and their judgements about the performances of education systems have political implications (Clarke 2005, Davis and Martin 2008). In this paper, we offer a parallel discussion to that in paper 2, exploring key developments in the history of inspection, drawing attention to key differences and to changes over time. We explore the relationship between changing models of inspection and changing politics and practices of regulation/steering in England from the establishment of Ofsted in the 1980s to the UK coalition government’s policies in 2010/11. Methodology: the paper draws on the project methodology of text analysis and critical discourse analysis (official documents and grey literature, as well as relevant academic texts and interviews with key informants). Conclusions This work is in process and it is too early to draw firm conclusions, but we will reflect on the complexity of inspection in the context of an increasingly complex ‘system.’
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