Perilous times: an oral history of teachers’ experience with school inspection in the 1930s

Milewski, Patrice

doi:10.1080/0046760x.2012.677482

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“…It borrowed from Burnard's notion of thematic content analysis, although the information extracted was more in the way of strands, apparent features of the interviewees' experience, rather than formal themes. It was consistent with the researcher's aims of compiling the HMIs' memories of events and developments within the specified timeframe, as described by Milewski (2012), and of getting as close as possible to how the interviewees saw their roles and the conditions in which they acted, a principle of oral history as suggested by Samier (2006). The approach provided reasonable assurance that nothing apparently important was omitted, with each reading of the transcripts allowing for refinements to the headings and sub-headings that became, ultimately, the structure of the written account that is this thesis.…”

Section: Analysing the Evidencesupporting

confidence: 64%

“…The narrative has been framed from the episodic memories of the interviewees, as suggested by Milewski (2012). The selection, ordering and presentation of the material from the transcripts were fundamentally acts of interpretation that required a degree of critical analysis, as called for by Perks (2010).…”

Section: Using the Methods Of Oral Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subjectivity is unavoidable in any field of human study and the intrinsic subjectivity of the accounts presented here makes them unique as historical data, valuable, as Perks (2010) might argue, for the extent to which they convey changing perceptions of the role of HMI. The approach allowed the participants to reflect on what they chose to include, or to withhold, rather as Milewski (2012) utilised a protocol of informed consent.…”

Section: Using the Methods Of Oral Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…P. 45), but about how a small group of individuals operated at a particular point in time and under the conditions then prevalent, as they understood them. The approach adopted here was intended specifically to be an oral history focusing on 'episodic memory' related to temporally specific events (Milewski, 2012). The method of oral history is used to emphasise the role of individuals and the conditions under which they acted (Samier, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘Reporting without fear, or favour’: HMI 2000-2010, and oral history

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Reporting without fear, or favour'; HMI 2000-2010, an oral history Clive R. Moss This thesis contends that the methodological approaches taken in exploring education inspections in the last twenty years are largely unhistorical and result in a particular view that contrasts current school inspections unfavourably with previous approaches, as a result of the particular methodoligical stances adopted, often analysing teachers' experiences of inspections using Foucauldian and performativity theoretical frameworks. Even studies with a more-historical bent tend to present Her Majesty's Inspectors (HMI) as belonging more to a less-destructive golden age of 'professional relationships'. The evidence bases for the hypotheses tend to omit, to treat as incidental, or to dismiss as misguided the views of inspectors, particularly the experiences of HMIs. The literature suggests also that the office of HMI effectively ceased to exist by the year 2000. This research set out to locate previously unavailable evidence about the work of HMIs after 2000 and to consider what that evidence revealed about the nature of the role at that time, using the method of oral history. The research looked at the experiences of a small group of former HMIs, who were active in the period 2000-2010, through semi-structured, recorded interviews, subsequently transcribed and analysed thematically, to see what the HMIs' recollections reveal about the prevailing debates, and to contribute to the growing body of literature about the value of oral history as a distinctive branch of historical method. The study argues that, throughout the period, HMIs operated as independently minded individuals, who sought to transcend their particular circumstances, in order to sustain a sense of the purpose and values which they considered underpinned the office. It demonstrates also that oral history evidence is as valid and useful as any other historical source, notwithstanding some distinctive contigencies and limitations associated with it. ITE-Initial teacher education (or teacher training) JAR-Joint Area Review. A programme of inspectorial reviews, involving inspectors from a range of inspectorates, looking at contributions by a range of services within local authority areas to meeting the five 'outcomes' for young people specified by the Every Child Matters initiative (see above). Juvenile estate-Provision for young offenders, referred to sometimes as the 'secure estate'.

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Section: Analysing the Evidencesupporting

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Section: Using the Methods Of Oral Historymentioning

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Section: Using the Methods Of Oral Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Writing the Thesismentioning

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