Re-balancing supervision

Sue Cooper; Pauline Grace; Graham Griffiths; Kate Sapin

doi:10.4324/9780203180945

Re-balancing supervision

Sue Cooper^*, Pauline Grace, Graham Griffiths, Kate Sapin

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Manchester Institute of Education

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This chapter sets out to identify how the process of supervision has fundamentally changed as a result of the neoliberal policy context and managerialism. It will argue that the technical-rational approach to managerial supervision has resulted in it becoming a process of surveillance rather than a process of reﬂective practice. We present a social constructivist approach (Parton, 2003; Hair and O’Donoghue, 2009) as an alternative paradigm that can enable supervisors and supervisees to claim back the space to reﬂectively review their work, and where the three functions of supervision can be balanced. We conclude by considering alternative modes of supervision: peer, group, and team, to oﬀer the reader some creative ways of addressing the conﬂicting demands placed upon supervision.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Critical Issues in Youth Work Management
Editors	Jon Ord
Place of Publication	Abingdon
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	8
Pages	96-108
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9780203180945
ISBN (Print)	9780415594356
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203180945
Publication status	Published - 2012

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