Index

Jo Bishop (University of Huddersfield, UK)

Propping up the Performative School: A Critical Examination of the English Educational Paraprofessional

ISBN: 978-1-83982-243-8, eISBN: 978-1-83982-242-1

Publication date: 12 September 2022

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Bishop, J. (2022), "Index", Propping up the Performative School: A Critical Examination of the English Educational Paraprofessional, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-242-120221013

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Copyright © 2022 Jo Bishop


INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Academic constructions of learning mentors
, 22–27

Ad hoc interventions
, 89–91

African Caribbean
, 77, 173

Appraisal
, 139–141

Area-based initiatives (ABIs)
, 9–11

Associate professional
, 1–2

Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN)
, 72n6

Barriers to learning
, 3, 21, 48, 63–64, 77, 83, 87, 93, 164

defining
, 21

removing
, 21, 93, 170

Behaviour Manager/Specialist (BEHM)
, 2n1

Behaviour support
, 101, 114, 116, 143, 167–168

Behaviour support worker
, 2–4, 7, 37, 69, 75, 167, 173

Blair, Tony
, 9, 12, 15–16, 18, 161

Blue-Collar Professionalism
, 2

Blunkett, David
, 9, 12

Breakfast Club
, 77–80

Bridge agents
, 34

Bridging function
, 25

Broker function
, 34, 160

Brutal commodification of the self
, 26

Building Schools for the Future (BSF)
, 68

Cath
, 143–145, 152

Centrality of work
, 19–20

Child protection
, 132

Children Act 2004
, 16

Children’s Centres
, 19

Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
, 19

Civil Rights Movement
, 32

Classroom observations
, 154

Clause IV
, 15

Community agents
, 30

Community schools
, 5n3

Compensatory Education (CE)
, 38

movement
, 39

Composite accounts
, 63–64

Connexions advisors
, 16

Conservative new right
, 4, 11

Conservative’s Education Reform Act of 1988
, 14

Continuing professional development (CPD)
, 139–141

Covid 19 pandemic
, 6

Curriculum
, 48, 70

curriculum-pastoral split
, 163

Data

reduction, display and organisation of
, 62–63

transforming of
, 61–65

Department for Children, Schools and Families
, 157

Department for Education
, 137, 157n3

Department for Education and Employment
, 11–12

Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
, 139

Deputy Head
, 110–112

Director of Pastoral Care (DPC)
, 107, 112–113

Disjunctures
, 115–117

Early intervention programmes
, 9

Economic Opportunity Act 1964
, 32, 160

Education Act 2002
, 13

Education Action Zones (EAZs)
, 12, 15

Education Reform Act 1988
, 14, 161

Educational paraprofessionals
, 1, 3

drawing parallels between policy agendas in construction of
, 159–161

heroic characterisations
, 6

Educational paraprofessionals
, 29

Educational priority areas (EPAs)
, 10–11

Emotional labour
, 26, 41–44

Engagement mentoring
, 25–26, 170

English as an Additional Language
, 67n2

Enrichment
, 102–104

Ethics
, 51–52

Ethnography

of learning mentor team
, 159

studies
, 14

Ever-changing systems
, 130

Every Child Matters (ECM)
, 16–19, 32, 161

five outcomes
, 17, 125

policy
, 125

Everyday life work
, 54–58

‘Everyday work’ of pupils
, 101–102

Excellence Clusters
, 12

Excellence in Cities
, 12, 15, 22, 32, 161

funding
, 107

initiative
, 51

Excellence in schools
, 11–12

‘Experiences of children and young people as ‘pupils’
, 55–58

Experiences of support staff
, 54–55

Experiential accounts of work
, 58–61

Fleeting encounters
, 94

Foundation Degree (FD)
, 139

Frontline workers
, 53–54

Gender lens
, 57

General Certificate in Education (GCSE)
, 69n4

Greggs Foundation
, 78n1

Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited
, 34

Head Start programme
, 32

Head Teacher
, 107–110

High-implementation school
, 20

Higher Level Teaching Assistants (HLTAs)
, 7, 13, 72–73, 143

current roles and specialisms
, 143–145

delivering pastoral care within provisions
, 147–149

explanations for ‘divisions’ between teaching and support roles
, 155–158

paraprofessional experiences
, 158

perceptions of learning mentor role
, 151–154

Higher National Diploma (HND)
, 140

Human Service Organisations (HSOs)
, 32, 34

Hybrid professional
, 2

Inclusion
, 74

Incoherencies
, 115–117

Inconsistencies
, 115–117

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
, 11

Indigenous nonprofessional
, 33

Institutional accounts of work
, 58–61

Institutional Ethnographers
, 60

Institutional Ethnography (IE)
, 7, 45–46

data transformation
, 61–65

defining
, 45

disjuncture
, 80

ethnographic tools
, 52–58

experiential accounts
, 58–61

institutional capture
, 58–61

in operation
, 48

planning ethnography and accessing site
, 49–52

problematic
, 46–47

relations of ruling
, 46–47

standpoint
, 46

texts
, 47–49

utilising IE in planning and executing interview
, 52–53

work (definition of)
, 55

work knowledges
, 57

Instructional Aides (USA)
, 30

Intentional institutional capture
, 125

Internal exclusion
, 74

Internal pupil referral unit (IPRU)
, 74

Isolation
, 74

Joined-up thinking
, 17

Key Stage 3 Learning Centre (KS3 Learning Centre)
, 144

Learning Mentor
, 4, 10, 77

ad hoc interventions
, 89–91

area-based initiatives
, 10–11

Breakfast Club
, 77–80

centrality of work
, 19–20

Every Child Matters
, 16–19

formal, ‘seen’ provisions
, 92

new labour school-specific policies
, 11–13

new labour’s social policy agenda
, 15–16

news media and academic constructions
, 22–27

official referral designed to complement other interventions
, 85

official referral mentors reservations
, 86–89

official referral responding to changed demeanour/behaviour of pupil
, 85–86

official referral to engage pupils with school’s core objectives
, 83–84

one-to-one interventions
, 83

role
, 21–22

teaching profession in ‘driving up standards’
, 13–14

time spent with pupils
, 81–82

Youth Club
, 89

Learning support worker
, 2

Line management, experiences of
, 138–139

Local Education Authority (LEA)
, 12

Long-term and complex unofficial interventions

pupils self-referring
, 94–95

Mentoring

classic model of
, 26, 98

engagement
, 25–26, 170

organic
, 26

youth
, 4, 6, 25–26, 172

Mentors
, 100–101

appraisal
, 139–141

continuing professional development
, 139–141

Daniel’s perspective
, 135–137

ever-changing systems
, 130

experiences of line management
, 138–139

lack of input, lack of information, lack of knowledge
, 131–133

mentor-initiated unofficial interventions
, 95–97

problematic nature of ‘official referrals’
, 129

responses to pupil experiences
, 104–106

time-limited nature of one-to-one interventions
, 133–135

unofficial interventions
, 137–138

Middle-class students
, 38

Multi-disciplinary working
, 19

Multi-faceted learning mentor
, 119

Progress Leader
, 119–121

shared middle management perspective of learning mentor role
, 128

Year Manager
, 124–126

National Occupational Standards (NOS)
, 139

National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)
, 20

New Careers for the Poor

community agent
, 33

‘indigenous non professional’
, 33

psychic stretch
, 41–44

New Careers for the Poor: the Nonprofessional in Human Service (Pearl & Reissman)
, 32–35

‘New Careers’
, 37–40

to education and schooling
, 35–37

New Labour

administration
, 9

government
, 43

school-specific policies
, 11–13

social policy agenda
, 15–16

New Public Management
, 13–14

giving rise to system of performativity
, 161–162

News media of learning mentors
, 22–27

Nonprofessionals
, 33–36

Not in education, employment and training (NEET)
, 109

Observations-and-talk
, 52

Official referrals

designed to complement other interventions
, 85

to engage pupils with school’s core objectives
, 83–84

mentors reservations
, 86–89

problematic nature of
, 129

responding to changed demeanour/behaviour of pupil
, 85–86

Officials
, 83

Ofsted
, 11–12, 14, 63, 68–69, 139, 155

inspection
, 112, 139

One-to-one interventions
, 83

Organisational paid work
, 53–54

Other support staff (OSS)
, 2n1, 4

Para teacher
, 2

Paraprofessional(s)
, 1–2, 20, 29

characterisation
, 34

definitions of
, 1–2

experiences
, 158

groups active in institutional process
, 167–169

mapping learning mentors ‘seen’ activities
, 164–166

‘new careers’ to education and schooling
, 35–37

‘New Careers’
, 37–41

pitfalls of assimilation
, 40–41

positioning and understanding place of paraprofessional within performance-based culture
, 162

psychic stretch or emotional labour
, 41–44

roles
, 172–173

school’s activities as ‘core’ and ‘peripheral’
, 163–164

work
, 31, 149–151

workforce
, 4

Pastoral care
, 47, 93, 120, 126, 173–174

Pastoralization
, 170–171

Pat
, 143–145

Perceptions of learning mentor role
, 151–154

Performance-based culture

helping relationships
, 169

positioning and understanding place of paraprofessional within a
, 162

Performativity
, 14, 161–162

Person centred practice
, 79

Pitfalls of assimilation
, 40–41

Plowden Committee
, 10

Plowden Report
, 3

Educational Priority Areas
, 10

Policy

borrowing
, 2–4

departure
, 2

importing
, 3

recycling
, 10

Political environment
, 10

Positive Behaviour Team
, 114

Positive discrimination
, 10

Poverty
, 7

anti-poverty strategies
, 7

child poverty (abolition of)
, 6, 16

Power relations
, 51–52

Priory Park High School
, 67

pen picture
, 70–75

significant developments and policy milestones
, 67–69

Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
, 68

Professional identity (learning mentors)
, 24, 151, 171

Progress Leader (PL)
, 119

ensuring pupils
, 121–124

path to Priory Park High
, 119–121

Protective factors
, 18

Psychic Stretch
, 41–44, 172

Pupil Nurture Centre (PNC)
, 72, 143

Pupils

‘Bankers’ and ‘RAP’s
, 71–72

defining in IE terms
, 170

enrichment
, 102–104

everyday work of
, 101–102

familial in name and presence
, 97–99

mentor responses to pupil experiences
, 104–106

perspectives of mentor role
, 97

school experiences
, 101

self-referring
, 94–95

understandings of learning mentor
, 99–100

work
, 55–58

Quad
, 73

Qualitative data
, 63

Qualitative enquiry
, 65

Quotes in analysis
, 64–65

Raising Achievement Programme (RAP)
, 71

Reflexive practice
, 51–52

‘Relations of ruling’
, 46–47

Remodelling agenda
, 13

Risk, identification and elimination of
, 15–16

‘Ruling’ work of managers
, 54

Safeguarding
, 133

Safer Schools Partnership
, 74

School’s activities as ‘Core’ and ‘Peripheral’
, 163–164

Schools

academies
, 109

all-inclusive
, 145

co-educational
, 67

comprehensive
, 173

faith
, 5

free
, 5

grammar
, 67

secondary
, 2–3, 7, 21, 104

state
, 1, 49, 69

workforce
, 143

Schools Achieving Success
, 13

Seen mentor activities
, 164–166

‘Seen’ domain, analysing mentors’ work in
, 169–170

Senior Leadership Team (SLT)
, 107

Deputy Head
, 110–112

Director of Pastoral Care
, 112–113

Head Teacher
, 107–110

learning mentor role
, 113–114

perspectives
, 115–117

special relationship
, 114–115

Senior leadership team (SLT)
, 71

Shared middle management perspective of learning mentor role
, 128

‘Silo’ working
, 17

Social capital
, 23

bridging
, 23

Social exclusion
, 15

Social Exclusion Unit (SEU)
, 15

Social integrationist discourse
, 19

Staff/pupil relationship, importance of
, 145–147

State education
, 172

Student supervision aides (USA)
, 30

Supervising teacher
, 37

Support staff, experiences of
, 54–55

Sure Start Children’s Centres
, 17

Teaching assistants (TAs)
, 3, 7, 74, 143

delivering pastoral care within provisions
, 147–149

Teaching profession

in ‘driving up standards’
, 13–14

remodelling agenda
, 13, 20, 24

Teenage Pregnancy Strategy
, 16

Text-reader conversation
, 48

Texts
, 47–51

Thatcherite policies
, 9

Third Way philosophy
, 15

Threefold categorisation model
, 25

Time-limited nature of one-to-one interventions
, 133–135

Traditional ethnographies
, 49

Transition

to high school
, 124–125

youth transition
, 43

United Kingdom (UK)
, 5

Unofficial interventions
, 137–138

Unseen work of learning mentors
, 93–94

fleeting encounters
, 94

‘Unseen’ domain, analysing mentors’ work in
, 171–172

‘Unseen’ mentor activities
, 166–167

War on Poverty
, 33

Whole school approach
, 48

Withdrawal room
, 144

Work

knowledges
, 57–59

as paraprofessionals
, 149–151

processes
, 55

Workforce, presence and roles in
, 2–6

Writing strategies
, 63–65

Year Manager (YM)
, 119

pastoral ‘eyes and ears’
, 126–128

Year Manager
, 124–126

Youth Club
, 89

Youth Inclusion Project
, 16

Youth Work National Occupational Standards
, 56