The Risky Socioecological Learner

Climate change and the assemblages of school leaderships

“…The more authoritarian an assemblage becomes, the more explicit and wide-reaching its coding gets, limiting the degrees of freedom of the components. The discussion by Wilks et al (2019) of the neoliberal coding of the assemblages within the education system is an example of coding in the context of our research.…”

“…The climate emergency is an anathema to neoliberal doctrines and the management culture these have evoked in education. Wilks, Turner, and Shipway (2019) argue that 'the dominance of neoliberal governance structures in school management' (p. 80) contributed to an increase in self-legitimising structures of regulation, compliance with 'myard of policies, procedures and processes' (p. 81), which resulted in a risk-averse and success-metric driven administrative style. Risk aversion, as Wilks et al (2019) argue, has been amplified by complicit media and their reinforcement of neoliberal governance.…”

“…Wilks, Turner, and Shipway (2019) argue that 'the dominance of neoliberal governance structures in school management' (p. 80) contributed to an increase in self-legitimising structures of regulation, compliance with 'myard of policies, procedures and processes' (p. 81), which resulted in a risk-averse and success-metric driven administrative style. Risk aversion, as Wilks et al (2019) argue, has been amplified by complicit media and their reinforcement of neoliberal governance. It filters down to teachers and students and generates 'disembodied learning' (p. 83) and 'disempowered students' (p. 85).…”