School Governance Policy Corpus for England and Manitoba, 2015–2025

England and Manitoba school governance systems are analyzed using a secondary documentary corpus collected between 2015 and 2025. The dataset, created by Andrew Clapham, includes scholarly literature, government policies, and organizational reports, totaling 18.6 KB in an XLSX file. It was used for a qualitative comparative study applying a governmentality framework to examine governance maturity.

Use Cases

• Comparative analysis of governance systems based on policy documents from two jurisdictions.
• Text mining for policy rationalities and accountability mechanisms mentioned in the description.
• Supporting theory development for Governance Maturity Theory (GMT) based on the documented coding processes.
• Historical review of governance reforms and socio-political contexts affecting educational decision-making.

Strengths

• Clear temporal coverage from 2015 to 2025.
• Explicitly sourced from authoritative databases (JSTOR, ERIC) and government/organizational websites.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 18.6 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Underlying source documents remain subject to original publisher copyright, limiting direct redistribution.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Qualitative secondary document analysis following searches of academic databases and organizational websites.

Time Range

2015–2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 11:49:46; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, Manitoba