Lee Del Col is an educator and school leader in South Australia with over 15 years of experience in both primary and secondary settings. Throughout his career, he has worked in co-educational and single-sex schools within Catholic Education. Lee holds Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral awards in education, with research interests in educational policy, learner identities and school-based masculinities. Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses mainly on class disadvantage and social mobility specifically with men from working-class (and working-poor) backgrounds. His research projects encompass theoretical and empirical studies of learner identities, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, educational reform and gendered subjectivities.

• Introduction. Part I. 1. Neoliberal Schooling in Glo/local contexts 2. Educational Policy in Australia 3. Institutional Ethnography 4. The Research Site: A School in ‘Survival Mode’ Part II 5. Marketising the school: policy, partnerships and culture 6. Leading in a survival school: policy tensions, mixed messages and New Public Management 7. Enacting external and internal policies: the work of teachers in tension 8. Survival and implications for educating boys 9. Reflections and conclusions. Appendix A. Appendix B

Lee Del Col is an educator and school leader in South Australia with over 15 years of experience in both primary and secondary settings. Throughout his career, he has worked in co-educational and single-sex schools within Catholic Education. Lee holds Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral awards in education, with research interests in educational policy, learner identities and school-based masculinities. Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses mainly on class disadvantage and social mobility specifically with men from working-class (and working-poor) backgrounds. His research projects encompass theoretical and empirical studies of learner identities, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, educational reform and gendered subjectivities.

• Introduction. Part I. 1. Neoliberal Schooling in Glo/local contexts 2. Educational Policy in Australia 3. Institutional Ethnography 4. The Research Site: A School in ‘Survival Mode’ Part II 5. Marketising the school: policy, partnerships and culture 6. Leading in a survival school: policy tensions, mixed messages and New Public Management 7. Enacting external and internal policies: the work of teachers in tension 8. Survival and implications for educating boys 9. Reflections and conclusions. Appendix A. Appendix B

Lee Del Col is an educator and school leader in South Australia with over 15 years of experience in both primary and secondary settings. Throughout his career, he has worked in co-educational and single-sex schools within Catholic Education. Lee holds Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral awards in education, with research interests in educational policy, learner identities and school-based masculinities. Garth Stahl is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses mainly on class disadvantage and social mobility specifically with men from working-class (and working-poor) backgrounds. His research projects encompass theoretical and empirical studies of learner identities, sociology of schooling in a neoliberal age, educational reform and gendered subjectivities.

• Introduction. Part I. 1. Neoliberal Schooling in Glo/local contexts 2. Educational Policy in Australia 3. Institutional Ethnography 4. The Research Site: A School in ‘Survival Mode’ Part II 5. Marketising the school: policy, partnerships and culture 6. Leading in a survival school: policy tensions, mixed messages and New Public Management 7. Enacting external and internal policies: the work of teachers in tension 8. Survival and implications for educating boys 9. Reflections and conclusions. Appendix A. Appendix B