{"id":130,"date":"2017-08-20T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/?p=130"},"modified":"2017-10-04T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:32:17","slug":"130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/2017\/08\/20\/130\/","title":{"rendered":"The phantom national? Using an &#8216;assemblage analytic&#8217; to understand national schooling reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>29 August 2017, <\/strong><strong>1-2 pm (CMB Conference room 2.15)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Glenn C. Savage, University of Western Australia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The phantom national? Using an \u2018assemblage analytic\u2019 to understand national schooling reforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this seminar, Dr. Glenn C. Savage will use the development of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) as an illustrative case to examine how national schooling reforms are being assembled in Australia\u2019s federal system. Drawing upon an emerging body of research on \u2018policy assemblages\u2019 within the fields of policy sociology and anthropology, he will explore the ways that so-called \u2018national reforms\u2019 evolve from complex and uneven interactions between diverse policy ideas, practices, actors and organisations. He will argue that while reforms like the APST claim to be national in form and scope, \u2018the national\u2019 is better understood as a disjunctive and phantom-like assemblage of heterogeneous parts, which often reflect transnational traits and impulses<\/p>\n<p>Glenn is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Education at the University of Western Australia. His current research examines how schooling policies in federal systems are mediated by transnational flows of policy ideas and practices. He currently holds an Australian Research Council \u2018Discovery Early Career Researcher Award\u2019 (DECRA) titled \u2018National schooling reform and the reshaping of Australian federalism\u2019 (2016-2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 August 2017, 1-2 pm (CMB Conference room 2.15) Dr Glenn C. Savage, University of Western Australia &nbsp; The phantom national? Using an \u2018assemblage analytic\u2019 to understand national schooling reforms. In this seminar, Dr. Glenn C. Savage will use the development of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) as an illustrative case to examine&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/2017\/08\/20\/130\/\">&#8230;Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}