How school leaders eliminate teachers through vision work

What is it about?

School leaders are using a number of ways to get rid of teachers who don't conform to, or adequately perform their vision. This vision is understood as unique to the leader - indeed, is constructed as a fundamental property of leadership - yet is ideologically derived from a totalising standards agenda. We draw on the insights of Hannah Arendt to argue that these leadership practices speak to a discourse of totalitarianism, where dissent is not permitted, and that these practices are facilitated through the regulatory autonomies of new, academy-type schools and their leaders.

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