ABSTRACT

The precarity of professionals working in schools and colleges at a time of change has been strongly accented by the competitive markets that currently characterise education and the influence of its global reforms. In this article, I draw on empirical data from a project located in a sixth-form college to argue that the field of Further Education is being restructured such that professionalism is hollowed out whilst accountability measures undermine leaders’ authority and enable a low-trust culture. I use Bourdieu’s thinking tools to conceptualise the data, including a rich conceptualisation of this site as a ‘field’ and of practices within it as part of the ‘game in play’. I generate four metaphorical lenses through which a perception of heterodoxy is used to clarify alternative positions that are simultaneously adopted by players and from which a response to the changing field of education reform can be offered.

摘要

当前教育的竞争性市场及其全球改革的影响强烈地强调了在变革时期在学校和学院工作的专业人员的不稳定。在这篇文章中，我利用位于一所六年级学院的一个项目的经验数据来论证继续教育领域正在被重组，专业精神被掏空，而问责措施削弱了领导者的权威并促成了低信任文化. 我使用 Bourdieu 的思维工具来概念化数据，包括将这个站点作为一个“场”进行丰富的概念化，并将其中的实践作为“游戏中的游戏”的一部分。