Educational Accountability (eBook, PDF)

International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership
Redaktion: Easley II, Jacob; Tulowitzki, Pierre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Within this edited volume, expert authors from around the globe explore the meaning(s) of educational accountability within their national and local contexts. They investigate the function, operations, and, more importantly, the outcomes of educational accountability, inspection, and testing within schools. Lastly, they challenge the paradigms and practices of accountability policies to offer new possibilities for educational effectiveness and improvement, with a particular focus on possibilities for school leadership. This book is key reading for researchers, policy makers, and current and future school leaders engaged with school effectiveness and the management of school improvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317678144
• Artikelnr.: 44979908

Autorenporträt

Jacob Easley II is Dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA. Pierre Tulowitzki is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Management and Economics of Education at the University of Teacher Education in Zug, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Educational Accountability Across Global
Contexts Jacob Easley II 2 Principal Leadership And Accountability In
Australia: A Fine Balance Indeed Simon Clarke & Neil Dempster 3 Aotearoa
New Zealand: Examining The Challenges Of Educational Accountability
Policies And Exploring Possibilities For School Leadership Jan Robertson &
Mary Hill 4 From Policy And Practice To Possibilities: The Context Of
Educational Accountability in The U.S. And Praxis of School Leadership
Jacob Easley II & Mohammed Elmeski 5 Chile: School Leadership Challenged By
Double Accountability Towards Schools José Weinstein, Javiera Marfán,
Andrea Horn, Gonzalo Muñoz 6 School Accountability Policy In Practice:
Learning byBy Comparing Australiea, New Zealand, USA, and China James P.
Spillane & Katie Mertz 7 Teacher Evaluation And Educational Accountability
in China: Implications for School Leadership Ting Wang 8 The School
Development And Accountability Framework in Hong Kong: Possibilities Of
Educational Leadership Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang 9 School Education and
Accountability In India: Mapping Current Policies And Practices Pranati
Panda 10 The Promises and Perils of School Leadership for Accountability:
Four Lessons from China, Hong Kong and India Moosung Lee & Misty M. Kirby
11 Accountability Policies And School Leadership in Austria: Increasing
Competition And Little Accountability Anna Kanape-Willingshofer, Herbert
Altrichter, David Kemethofer 12 Top-down Accountability And Local
Management: Tensions And Contradictions Experienced By French Principals As
Leaders Romuald Normand & Jean-Louis Derouet 13 Accountability In The
German School System: More Of A Burden Than A Preference Stephan Gerhard
Huber, Bettina-Maria Gördel, Selin Kilic, Pierre Tulowitzki 14 Swinging
Between Two Platforms: Accountability Policy In The Netherlands And
Educational Leadership In And Around Schools Jeroen Imants, Yvonne Zwart,
Peter Breur 15 Emerging Accountability Policies And Practices In Education:
The Case Of Norway Guri Skedsmo and Sølvi Mausethagen 16 Accountability
Policies Across Austria, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Norway
Jorunn Møller 17 Educational Accountability Around The Globe: Challenges
and Possibilities for School Leadership Pierre Tulowitzki