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Talent Spotlight: Neil Gaiman Master fantasy scribe Neil Gaiman is one of comics' leading academics, deconstructing heroes with wit and sophistication. Get to Know Your Favorite Characters. So far, what we have written is not uncomfortable from a social scientific perspective. It is not that journalists should not report settled judgements as fact. The problem in the Trojan Horse affair was that they presented as factual that which was not settled precisely because the court process was cut short without a proper judgement, and because the inquiries that provided the background were not subjected to scrutiny.

What has also been noticeable about the Trojan Horse affair, however, is that it has not been taken up by many of the NGOs and activist groups outside those representing Muslims. We can turn to Becker again for some insight. This formulation, however, is not apt, as can be illustrated in the circumstances of the Trojan Horse affair.

In this situation, the role of sociology, or theatre, as mediator, or as vehicle for marginalised voices, becomes at issue. This is especially the case when, as we have suggested, both the impact agenda for academic research and the use of theatre in schools to deliver government educational policies encourage alignment with the official view. The claims of egregious practices—gender segregation, homophobia, religious conservatism, albeit falsely alleged against the Trojan Horse schools in Birmingham—are set against a wider British commitment to equalities, equalities that are also central to sociological conceptions of justice.

As we have already argued, there was no basis to the claims of extremism made against teachers, nor was there any evidence that the school at the centre was failing its pupils in terms of their future capacities as citizens. Moreover, none of their activities was in breach of existing statutory requirements on schools. However, the argument is increasingly that there should be no compulsory religious education and collective worship in publicly funded schools.

Notice that the argument arises as a consequence of ethnic minority and other-than-Christian heritage communities exercising their rights under current statutory requirements. Instead, the Trojan Horse affair becomes an example of the exercise of a lawful right that should not have existed. Our account so far has not addressed directly the changing social and political circumstances of the different forms of reporting.

We have argued that there has been a dispersal of school governance into multiple discrete networked communities of practice some charitable, some philanthropic, some for-profit organisations , alongside a centralisation of responsibility under the DfE and its agencies.

Here we will consider how that development has occurred across a number of areas and its consequences for the public sphere and reporting practices. However, they are rather neglectful of the authoritarian implications of networked governance, in terms of the enhanced power and responsibility assigned to the centre and the relative weakness of the other agents in the network and of those who are cast outside it.

The new networks are both fragile and separate from local responsibilities. Instead, they are networked directly with government.

Moreover, the networks include—indeed, are dominated by—the beneficiaries of public funding diverted from local authorities and dependent on the goodwill of the DfE. At the same time, the agencies and programmes operated by the DfE now function on the basis of consultants drawn from the very network system under scrutiny.

The officials at the DfE responsible for the schools improvement programme were themselves employed as consultants with an interest in the maintenance of their contracts and not as civil servants operating under a public duty. Indeed, the conjunction of networked governance and populism is not accidental. Democracy necessarily functions through populism once authorised public agencies of local accountability are transferred to private consultancies and independent agencies see Boon, Salomonsen, and Verhoest Populism, in this sense, is not a reaction to a government that is out of touch with the people but is the mode in which government itself functions and how it uses the media.

Scapegoating is how politics is conducted. But, surely, the situation of social science and sociology is different from that of journalism? The view that they are different would neglect recent changes to higher education and its marketisation.

Our institutions are now no less commercial than large media corporations. This article has addressed issues of reporting central to conceptions of public sociology and verbatim theatre. It is more important, as we have suggested here, that the sociological conditions of functioning democratic decision-making have been weakened and that the agencies that facilitate this decision-making—the press, academic research—have been bent to instrumental ends. In this context, verbatim theatre has been a valuable way of reaching audiences that are not simply those that are already aligned with the presumed lessons to be learned—for example, about Islamophobia.

In this article we have drawn on the role of the expert witness to illustrate a form of sociological humility, which places expertise at the service of those who are called to make a judgement, rather than supplanting that role by declaring the answer. If knowledge is power, then it cannot also be a game, as Fuller has suggested. Or, if it is, it is one in which the losers may suffer not only a failure to realise their interests but also a loss of their rights and, in the context of populism, the calumny of public opinion.

In our present times, we are in urgent need of social research that will rectify injustice and a theatre that will break through one-dimensional representations of public events.

British Values are now part of the curriculum for my little brothers at Nansen Primary. British Values are Islamic values. What about me is not British? The authors were themselves actively involved in the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair. John Holmwood was an expert witness for the defence in court cases brought by the National College of Teaching and Leadership, specifically the case involving senior leaders at Park View Educational Trust.

Between and , they conducted two hundred hours of interviews with pupils, parents, teachers, governors, and education officials in Birmingham and at the DfE. Trojan Horse was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August , where it won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award among other awards but failed to get bookings for a subsequent run at other venues. Following the Amnesty award, it was booked for a tour of major venues in October and November and in February The authors of this article also had access to all official reports redacted in some cases to protect witnesses and court documents, including transcripts, in the public domain.

The commission is reported by Emma McKinney The play, Tapestry, predated the Trojan Horse affair by some five years Winston and Strand , but current performances are subject to the new Prevent requirements with regard to safeguarding and the reporting of behaviour or speech perceived to be a sign of vulnerability. Park View was a school with It had been in special measures in , and by it was in the top 14 percent of all schools in England for academic achievement. This achievement was despite the fact that It also had a higher than average percentage of pupils with special needs.

These facts were not reported by Clarke or by journalists. Some of them will sway you in completely different directions—and send you off looking for more information. See it. Judge for yourselves. Many of these advisers have stakes within existing trusts. Another was Rob Briscoe Associates. Sign In or Create an Account. User Tools. Sign In. Skip Nav Destination Article Navigation. Close mobile search navigation Article navigation.

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