Policy for Schools as Community Hubs: Insights Into a Fragmented Environment

Abstract

Schools as community hubs are recognised for their significant contributions to communities. Yet, these projects must negotiate complex and often fragmented policy environments that cross government jurisdictions and disciplines to achieve stakeholder support, funding, and operate over the longer-term to deliver benefits to communities. Policy research in this area is scarce. This chapter discusses policy for schools as community hubs through the lenses of Bacchi and Goodwin’s ‘problem representation’ approach and ideas about performative and locally enacted policy. This theoretical framework is applied to Yuille Park Community College, in Victoria, Australia, as an interpretive policy analy..