School Autonomy and Parent Engagement in Disadvantaged Communities

Scalecraft, scalecreep and scalecrunch: school autonomy as scalar politics

GC Savage, J Broom, J Gerrard

2026-01-01

This paper deploys the concept of scalecraft in concert with two new concepts (scalecreep and scalecrunch) to explore how scale fu..

The engaged parent: schooling and motherhood in the contemporary economy

J Gerrard, GC Savage, A Freeborn, MR Keynes

2025-01-01

This paper explores parental experiences of school engagement, set against the backdrop of policy aspirations for parental involve..

The governing parent-citizen: dividing and valorising parent labour through school governance

Jessica Gerrard, Glenn C Savage

2022-09-03

Internationally, major policy reforms seek to deepen parent and community engagement in schools. Whilst pervasive in policy docume..

Ethics in neoliberalism? Parental responsibility and education policy in Chile and Australia

JDD Oyarzún, J Gerrard, GC Savage

2022-09-01

This article questions the diverse and, in some cases, contradictory ethical forms present in contemporary neoliberal policy frame..

The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks

GC Savage, J Gerrard, T Gale, T Molla

2021-01-01

This article reflects on what doing critical policy sociology means in shifting theoretical, empirical and methodological contexts..