Jane Perryman
@janeeperryman.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology of Education at UCL IOE. Interests: policy sociology; teacher retention, policy enactment, school inspection, theorising using Foucault. And singing.
Our most recent paper:
Perryman, J., Bradbury, A., Calvert, G., & Kilian, K. (2025) ‘Headteachers and External Inspection in England’ Educational Management Administration and Leadership doi.org/10.1177/1741... @alicebradbury.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
Perryman, J., Bradbury, A., Calvert, G., & Kilian, K. (2025) ‘Headteachers and External Inspection in England’ Educational Management Administration and Leadership doi.org/10.1177/1741... @alicebradbury.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
Headteachers and external inspection in England - Jane Perryman, Alice Bradbury, Graham Calvert, Katie Kilian, 2025
In December 2023 a UK Government Inquiry concluded that Ofsted, the English inspection regime, had ‘contributed’ to the death of a Headteacher, Ruth Perry, who ...
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May 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our most recent paper:
Perryman, J., Bradbury, A., Calvert, G., & Kilian, K. (2025) ‘Headteachers and External Inspection in England’ Educational Management Administration and Leadership doi.org/10.1177/1741... @alicebradbury.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
Perryman, J., Bradbury, A., Calvert, G., & Kilian, K. (2025) ‘Headteachers and External Inspection in England’ Educational Management Administration and Leadership doi.org/10.1177/1741... @alicebradbury.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
In the fourth open access paper from our Beyond Ofsted Inquiry Graham Calvert asks the question 'what it is about the inspection process that produces toxicity?' @ioe.bsky.social @alicebradbury.bsky.social
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Turning school inspections toxic: insights from an inquiry into Ofsted in England
Research has long suggested that the policy of school inspection, implemented through the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) in England, has psychological and physical effects on teachers t...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In the fourth open access paper from our Beyond Ofsted Inquiry Graham Calvert asks the question 'what it is about the inspection process that produces toxicity?' @ioe.bsky.social @alicebradbury.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our latest open access Beyond Ofsted paper, Kate Killian argues that school improvement for the most vulnerable schools is incompatible with Ofsted’s culture of fear and deficit model of accountability
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Fearing the ‘Clipboard Police’: Exploring How Marginalised Schools Experience Ofsted Inspections in an Era of Precarity
Research suggests that the inspection service in England, Ofsted, has negative impacts on teachers and creates a culture of fear and performativity. Of particular concern is Ofsted’s potential to h...
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April 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In our latest open access Beyond Ofsted paper, Kate Killian argues that school improvement for the most vulnerable schools is incompatible with Ofsted’s culture of fear and deficit model of accountability
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am involved in a Research Design for an Alternative Inspection System www.inspect4good.uk. Do get in touch via the website if you are interested to know more #ofsted
Transforming Inspection for Good
Proposal to transform educational inspection (Ofsted) in England
www.inspect4good.uk
April 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I am involved in a Research Design for an Alternative Inspection System www.inspect4good.uk. Do get in touch via the website if you are interested to know more #ofsted
My first post here is a link to our new paper ‘A Tipping Point’ in Teacher Retention and Accountability: The Case of Inspection' which is now available open access.
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‘A Tipping Point’ in Teacher Retention and Accountability: The Case of Inspection
Accountability policy and its negative effects on teachers’ working lives and retention is internationally recognised as a problem in education with school evaluation and inspection being a particu...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:17 PM
My first post here is a link to our new paper ‘A Tipping Point’ in Teacher Retention and Accountability: The Case of Inspection' which is now available open access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ioe.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ioe.bsky.social