Extended schools in England : emerging rationales

Dyson, Alan; Jones, Lisa

Abstract

Schools in many countries are beginning to take on extended roles, working with families and communities as well as with students. However, the rationales underpinning such developments are often unclear. This paper reports on case studies of 20 schools developing new roles as part of the national extended services initiative in England. It reports in detail on two of these schools, exploring the rationales for their extended roles elicited in the course of a theory of change- based evaluation. It finds that schools saw no contradiction between their traditional and extended roles because they saw students’ academic attainments as shaped by a wide range of personal, family and community factors. It argues that the schools’ rationales were coherent, but by no means fully articulated and concludes that dialogue between practitioners, policy makers and researchers is necessary to develop these rationales further.

Citation

Dyson, A., & Jones, L. (2014). Extended schools in England : emerging rationales. International journal for research on extended education IJREE, 2(1), 5-19. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v2i1.19531

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Jul 21, 2014
• Publication Date: Jul 21, 2014
• Deposit Date: May 23, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 23, 2016
• Journal: International journal for research on extended education
• Electronic ISSN: 2196-7423
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-19
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v2i1.19531
• Keywords: Extended education, Community schools, Extended schools, Disadvantage
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/438577
• Publisher URL: http://budrich-journals.de/index.php/IJREE/article/view/19531
• Additional Information: Unable to ascertain affiliations of authors at point of publication. This is a copy of an open access article published in International journal for research on extended education, 2014, v.2 issue 1.
• Contract Date: May 23, 2016