Book Description
This text examines how education is changing and outlines what is desirable and workable. The authors suggest clear guidelines for policy-makers and practitioners.
Author : Brian Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135718016
This text examines how education is changing and outlines what is desirable and workable. The authors suggest clear guidelines for policy-makers and practitioners.
Author : Brian J. Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135388946
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Joseph Zajda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9048127033
This book, which is the eighth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in decentralisation, school-based management (SBM) and quality in education globally. This book, which focuses on decentralisation and SBM as a governance strategy in education, presents theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of decentralisation/privatisation and contextualises them within the education research literature. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information concerning the dynamics of decentralisation and SBM that normally take place when reforms are instituted to decentralize authority and power. Above all, the authors offering the latest findings regarding major discourses in dec- tralisation, SBM and quality in educational systems in the global culture emphasise aspects of that dynamic interactive process (see also Geo-JaJa 2006a; Gamage and Sooksomchitra 2006, Zajda 2009). This dynamic interaction in the process that is implicit in the title of the book is reified by calls for restructuring of schools f- lowing the idea that schools are not promoting human rights, social cohesion and sustainable development. The chapters as a source book of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in decentralisation and SBM in education contr- ute to the educational literature while enhancing the understanding of the larger dynamics involved in educational reform. It offers a timely overview of current issues affecting decentralisation in education in the global culture.
Author : John Smyth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2005-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135721165
The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon of the self-managing school, Why It Is Happening Now, What Is The Truth Behind This Notion And The problems which lie behind devolution and self-management.; The self- managing school, it is claimed is not about "grassroots democracy" or "parent participation" but absolutely the reverse and this contradiction is best understood in terms of the ideology of the New Right. Enlightened and informed perspectives of the reality behind school self-management suggest that the devolution of power is only superficial. Hierarchies continue to exist as unequally funded schools which perpetuate class, gender and ethnic divisions. The mechanism involved promotes the Survivial Of The Fittest Through Notions Of Choice.; For Those Involved in school management and education generally, this book should provide a useful insight into the struggle surrounding the control of schooling.
Author : Colin W. Evers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134579284
Leadership for Quality Schooling provides the latest thinking and research on school leadership from a range of international scholars in the field of educational administration. Because of the growing acceptance of school- based models of school management, there is now developing a greater focus on how quality education can be more fully achieved in this increasingly commonplace administrative context. Since one major aspect of promoting quality is the role of school leadership, this book offers a particular focus on the question of the connection between leadership and school improvement, effectiveness and performance. Leadership for Quality Schooling will be of interest to educational practitioners, students, researchers, academics and policymakers. It is intended as a guide to the latest research on leadership, as well as a stimulus to further thought for those looking for alternative ideas to existing practices.
Author : Brian J. Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135072108
The Self-Transforming School combines an insightful meta-analysis of factors contributing to the success of schools, and an examination of powerful mega-trends that are shaping developments in education, to offer the first mega-analysis in education policy and practice. The book spans fifty years, beginning with Caldwell and Spinks’ ground-breaking work The Self-Managing School which advocated innovative approaches that are now accepted as preferred practice, before offering a prognosis and plan for the future. The book argues that all schools in all settings can secure success for all students in an era where society and the economy are changing constantly and dramatically. Although schools find some support in local and global networks, externally designed re-structuring, re-staffing, or command-and-control direction isn’t sufficient to achieve transformation. Instead of replicating particular approaches to achieve modest improvement, leadership of the highest quality needs to be deeply embedded in schools and their systems. Caldwell and Spinks propose three important points that need to be taken into consideration: -schools are often at different stages of self-transformation -self-transformation requires a high level of professionalism, and must include teacher education and on-going professional development -funding is critically important, and efforts to build a capacity for self-transformation are constrained by what is available. The book gives particular attention to developments in Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Finland, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Shanghai, Singapore and the United States. It will be of key interest to school leaders, policy makers, and academics and postgraduate students engaged in research on equity, student performance in highly disadvantaged settings and education policy.
Author : Brian Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Educational planning
ISBN : 1135387680
This work is a sequel to The Self-Managing Schooland deals with leadership responsibilities on two levels - as head of a school responsible for local management and as a director in a Local Education Authority responsible, in turn, for the.
Author : Sonia Blandford
Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Provides practical advice on the areas needed to become an effective manager. The text shows how to: build and manage your budget; allocate funds and generate income opportunities; relate resource management to your school development plans; and establish benchmarks for good practice.
Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780750709453
Bringing together the work of researchers from across the world, this unique collection links policy, school leadership and teacher's lives.
Author : Pat Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136734589
Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, interrogating the inequities and injustices of modern societies. Through a lifetime’s explication of the ways in which schooling both produces and reproduces the status quo, Bourdieu offered a powerful critique and method of analysis of the history of schooling, and of contemporary educational polices and trends. Though frequently used in educational research, Bourdieu’s work has had much less take up in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration. Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu argues that ELMA scholars have much to gain by engaging more thoroughly with his work. The book explains each of the key terms in Bourdieu’s thinking tool kit, showing how the tripartite concepts of field, habitus and capitals offer a way through which to understand the interaction of structure and agency, and the limits on the freedom of an individual – in this case an educational leader – to act. Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu offers an analysis of dominant trends in ELMA research, examining the kinds of questions asked, projects undertaken and methods used. It provides alternative questions and methods based on a Bourdieusian approach, further readings and a range of exemplars of the application of these tools. The book will be of interest to those whose primary focus is the utility of Bourdieu’s social theory.