PUBLICATIONS

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BOOKS

Wilkins, A. 2024. Imagined Markets: A Genealogy of Parents and Education Reform. In preparation

Wilkins, A., Courtney, S.J. & Piattoeva‬, N. 2023. Keywords in education policy research: A conceptual toolbox. Policy Press: Bristol

Wilkins, A. (ed.) 2023. Policy foundations of education. Bloomsbury: London

Wilkins, A. and Olmedo, A. (eds). 2018. Education governance and social theory: Interdisciplinary approaches to research. Bloomsbury: London

Wilkins, A. 2016. Modernising school governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education. Routledge: London and New York.  Awarded joint-second prize by the Society for Educational Studies (SES) for books published in 2016

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Wilkins, A., Collet-Sabe, J., Esper, T., Gobby, B. & Grimaldi, E. 2023. Mobilising New Public Management: A global assemblage analysis of actors, networks and projects. In D. B. Edwards, A. Verger, K. Takayama & M. McKenzie (eds) Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement. Policy Press: Bristol

Wilkins, A. 2023. Mapping the field: Education policy research and theory. In A. Wilkins (ed.) Policy Foundations of Education. Bloomsbury: London, 9-32

Wilkins, A. 2023. Introduction. In A. Wilkins (ed.) Policy Foundations of Education. Bloomsbury: London, 1-8

Wilkins, A. 2022. Academisation and the law of ‘attraction’: An ethnographic study of relays, connective strategies and regulated participation. In C. Kulz, K. Morrin and R. McGinity (eds) Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment. Manchester University Press: Manchester, pp. 35-59

Wilkins, A. 2021. Deconstructing governance: Perspectives in post-positivist thinking. In M.A. Peters and R. Heraud (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer: Singapore

Wilkins, A. and Gobby, B. 2020. Governance and educational leadership. In S. Courtney, H. Gunter, R. Niesche and T. Trujillo (eds) Understanding Educational Leadership: Critical Perspectives and Approaches. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 309-322

Wilkins, A. 2019. Technologies in rational self-management: Interventions in the ‘responsibilisation’ of school governors. In J. Allan, V. Harwood and C.R. Jørgensen (eds) World Yearbook of Education 2020: Schooling, Governance and Inequalities. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 99-112

Wilkins, A. 2019. Wither democracy? The rise of epistocracy and monopoly in school governance. In S. Riddle and M. Apple (eds) Re-imagining Education for Democracy. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 142-155

Wilkins, A. 2018. Neoliberalism, citizenship and education: A policy discourse analysis. In A. Peterson, G. Stahl and H. Soong (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Citizenship and Education. Palgrave: Basingstoke, pp. 141–153

Wilkins, A. and Olmedo, A. 2018. Conceptualising education governance: Framings, perspectives and theories. In A. Wilkins and A. Olmedo (eds) Education Governance and Social Theory: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 1-20

Wilkins, A. 2018. Assembling schools as organisations: On the limits and contradictions of neoliberalism. In M. Connolly, C. James, S. Kruse, and D.E. Spicer (eds) SAGE International Handbook on School Organization. Sage: London, pp. 509-523

Wilkins, A. 2017. Creating expert publics: A governmentality approach to school governance under neo-liberalism.  In S. Courtney, R. McGinity and H. Gunter (eds) Educational Leadership: Professional Practice in Neoliberal Times. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 97-110

Wilkins, A. 2017. The business of governorship: Corporate elitism in public education. In H.M. Gunter, D. Hall and M.W. Apple (eds) Corporate Elites and the Reform of Education. Policy Press: Bristol, pp. 161-176

Wilkins, A. 2016. Gobernanza escolar y la lógica de la política neoliberal. ¿Qué puede hacer la democracia? In J. Collet-Sabé and A. Tort (eds.) La governanza escolar democrática: Más allá de los modelos neoliberal y neoconservador. Morata: Madrid, pp. 84-100

Wilkins, A. 2014. Affective labour and neoliberal fantasies: The gendered and moral economy of school choice in England.  In M. Vandenbeld Giles (ed.) Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism. Demeter Press: Bradford, Ontario, pp. 265-282

ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEW JOURNALS

Keddie, A., MacDonald, K., Blackmore, J., Boyask, R., Fitzgerald, S., Gavin, M., Heffernan, A., Hursh, D., McGrath-Champ, S., Møller, J., O-Neill, J., Parding, K., Salokangas, M., Skerritt, C., Stacey, M., Thomson, P., Wilkins, A., Wilson, R., Wylie, C. & Yoon, E. 2022. What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?. Australian Education Researcher. iFirst

Wilkins, A. & Gobby, B. 2022. Objects and subjects of risk: A governmentality approach to education governance. Globalisation, Societies and Education. iFirst

Wilkins, A., Collet-Sabé, J., Gobby, B. & Hangartner, J. 2019. Translations of New Public Management: A decentred approach to school governance in four OECD countries. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 17 (1), 147-160

Wilkins, A. 2019. The processual life of neoliberalisation: Permutations of value systems and normative commitments in a co-operative trust setting. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 23 (11), 1180-1195

Wilkins, A. 2017. Rescaling the local: Multi-academy trusts, private monopoly and statecraft in England. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49 (2), 171-185

Olmedo, A. & Wilkins, A. 2017. Governing through parents: a genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England. Discourse: Studies in Cultural Politics of Education, 38 (4), 573-589

Wilkins, A. 2015. Professionalising school governance: The disciplinary effects of school autonomy and inspection on the changing role of school governors. Journal of Education Policy, 30 (2), 182-200

Wilkins, A. & Burke, PJ. 2015. Widening participation in higher education: The role of professional and social class identities and commitments. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36 (3), 434-452

Olmedo, A. & Wilkins, A. 2014. Gobernar la educación a través de los padres: política educativa y construcción de subjetividades neoliberales en Inglaterra.  Revista Profesorado, 18 (2), 99-116

Wilkins, A. 2013. Libertarian paternalism: Policy and everyday translations of the rational and the affective. Critical Policy Studies, 7 (4), 395-406

Wilkins, A. 2012. Public battles and private takeovers: Academies and the politics of educational governance. Journal of Pedagogy, 3 (1), 11-29

Wilkins, A. 2012. Commodifying diversity: Education and governance in the era of neoliberalism. Human Affairs, 22 (2), 122-130

Wilkins, A. 2012. The spectre of neoliberalism: Pedagogy, gender and the construction of learner identities. Critical Studies in Education, 53 (2), 197-210

Wilkins, A. 2012. Push and pull in the classroom: Gender, competition and the neoliberal subject. Gender and Education, 24 (7), 765-768

Wilkins, A. 2012. School choice and the commodification of education: A visual approach to school brochures and websites. Critical Social Policy, 32 (1), 70-87

Wilkins, A. 2011. School choice, consumerism and the ethical strand in talk. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32 (3), 357-370

Wilkins, A. 2011. Community and school choice: Geographies of care and responsibility. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21 (1), 1-13

Wilkins, A. 2010. Citizens and/or consumers: Mutations in the construction of meanings and practices of school choice. Journal of Education Policy, 25 (2), 171-189

THEMED ISSUES

Wilkins, A. 2012. (Guest editor) Pedagogy of the consumer: The politics of neo-liberal reform. Special issue Part 1: Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and the Curriculum: A Global Perspective. Journal of Pedagogy, 3 (2), 161-173

Wilkins, A.. 2012. (Guest editor) Shades of Freire: Exorcising the spectre haunting pedagogy.  Special Issue Part 2: Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and the Curriculum: A Global Perspective. Journal of Pedagogy, 4 (1), 5-10

BOOK REVIEWS

Wilkins, A. 2019. Reframing Education as a Public and Common Good: Enhancing Democratic Governance by Rita Locatelli. Journal of Education Policy, iFirst

Wilkins, A. 2019. The Handbook of Global Education Policy edited by Karen Mundy et al. Journal of Education Policy, iFirst

Wilkins, A. 2017. Through a glass darkly: The social science look at the neoliberal university by Margaret Thornton (ed.). Journal of Education Policy, 32 (3), 386-387

Wilkins, A. 2015. STEM Strategies: Student ambassadors and equality in higher education by Clare Gartland. Journal of Education Policy, 30 (5), 747-748

Wilkins, A. 2013. Social Theory and Education Research by Mark Murphy (ed.). Social Theory Applied.

Wilkins, A. 2013. Local Democracy, Civic Engagement and Community: From New Labour to the Big Society by Hugh Atkinson. LSE Review of Books.

GUEST BLOGS 

Wilkins, A. 2017. School governance: redressing the democratic deficit. Education Uncovered. 19 October.

Wilkins, A. 2016. Should we be worried about controversial government plans to do away with parent governors in schools?. Democratic Audit UK. 23 March

Wilkins, A. 2015. School governors –  Changing the way we do things. School Governors One-Stop Shop (SGOSS). 25 February

Wilkins, A. 2014. Small cliques often take control of school governor boards. The Conversation. 29 October