Working in a Survival School: Exploring Policy Tensions, Marketisation and Performativities

Working in a Survival School documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it was a school in ‘survival mode.’

Drawing on Dorothy Smith’s scholarship on Institutional Ethnography, the authors document how the school operated and how it...