School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice (eBook, PDF)

Challenging the Orthodoxy?
Redaktion: Chapman, Christopher; Sammons, Pam; Reynolds, David; Muijs, Daniel; Harris, Alma; Armstrong, Paul

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a contemporary, state-of-the-art overview of the school effectiveness and improvement field and challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and methodological traditions of the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136487477
• Artikelnr.: 38271364

Autorenporträt

Christopher Chapman is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, UK. Paul Armstrong is a researcher for the Effectiveness and Improvement Research Group at the University of Manchester, UK. Alma Harris is Professor at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Daniel Muijs is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, UK. David Reynolds is Professor of Educational Effectiveness at the University of Southampton, UK. Pam Sammons is Professorial Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Foundations of the Field 1. School Effectiveness
Research 2. School Improvement Research & Practice 3. School Effectiveness
and School Improvement Theory 4. School Effectiveness and School
Improvement Methods Part 2: School Effectiveness and School Improvement in
Practice: Examples from the field 5. The Challenge of Equity 6. Dealing
with Division? 7. The Potency of History and Culture 8. The imperative of
Improvement Part 3: Current Developments and Future Directions 9. Placing
improvement at the centre of practice 10. Changing times for changing
systems 11. Thinking locally acting globally 12. Towards sustainable
schooling 13. Daring to think of the future 14. Policy and Practice Part 4:
Meeting the challenge; beyond the orthodoxy 15. Conclusion