This specially commissioned collection of essays will offer the first analysis of the new structure and organisation of the teaching profession, examining the roots and implication of the new structure.

Introduction: The Performing School: Managing, Teaching and Learning in a Performance Culture PART I Liontamers and Jugglers? Challenges and Opportunities in Managing the Performing School 1. Managing 'Performance' in the Performing School: The Impacts of Performance Management on Schools Under Regulation 2. Managing Performance Management in the Performing School 3. A Right Performance 4. Towards Professional Learning Communities? Teacher Development and Teacher Culture in Performance Management PART II Highwire Artists and Acrobats? Professional Cultures and School Contexts 5. Teachers and the Myth of Modernisation 6. Teachers' Lives and Teaching Performance 7. Developing Teachers in a Performance Culture: Performance-related Pay and Teacher Motivation 8. A Culture of Teaching Under 'New Management' PART III Ringmasters and Big Tops? Performance and Performativity in Policy Frameworks 9. The Performing School and the Modernisation of Teachers 10. Teacher Professionalism in New Times 11. Performing and Conforming 12. Characteristics of Performative Cultures: Their Central Paradoxes and Limitations as Resources for Educational Reform 13. Performativities and Fabrications in the Education Economy: Towards the Performative Society Conclusion: An Agenda for Action and Evidence-related Policy