ABSTRACT

Internationally, major policy reforms seek to deepen parent and community engagement in schools. Whilst pervasive in policy documents, however, discourses surrounding ‘parent engagement’ are often elastic and imprecise, ultimately gaining meaning through the technologies of governance that shape policy enactments in schools. In this paper, we argue that contemporary schooling reforms are constructing a new ‘governing parent-citizen’ through which the parental labour of social reproduction is being extended, valorised and rearticulated. We examine how one major reform movement in Australia is articulating new roles for parents and community members in schools: the Independent Public Schools (IPS) initiative in Western Australia. Our analysis demonstrates the intensive policy intervention required to produce this new form of parental labour and the subsequent divisions of labour it is producing.

摘要

在国际上，重大的政策改革旨在加深家长和社区对学校的参与。然而，虽然政策文件中普遍存在，但围绕“父母参与”的论述通常是灵活而不精确的，最终通过塑造学校政策制定的治理技术而获得了意义。在本文中，我们认为当代的学校教育改革正在构建一个新的“管治父母-公民”，社会再生产的父母劳动通过它得到扩展，补偿和重新设定。我们研究了澳大利亚的一项重大改革运动如何阐明学校中家长和社区成员的新角色：西澳大利亚州的独立公立学校（IPS）倡议。