John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. From 2012 to 2014, he was President of the British Sociological Association and in 2014/15, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. He acted as an Expert Witness to the Court in one of the National College for Teaching and Leadership hearings against teachers arising from the Trojan Horse affair.Therese O’Toole is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol and a member of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. She led a major ESRC/AHRC study of Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance and an AHRC Connected Communities study of the local implementation of Prevent in Bristol..

"A compelling alternative analysis of the `Trojan Horse’ affair, shining much-needed light on a serious but neglected vector of educational inequality in the UK." Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham

• Introduction: A plot to Islamicise schools?Part 1: Context‘British values’ and community cohesionPrevent: from hearts and minds to muscular liberalismCommunity cohesion, schooling and PreventReligious education, collective worship and publicly funded educationGovernance, school reform and change managementPart 2: The case Introducing the caseEnter OfstedThe Clarke and Kershaw ReportsThe NCTL hearings and their collapseConclusion: Lessons from the Trojan Horse affair