School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice - Challenging the Orthodoxy?

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christopher (University of Glasgow Chapman, Christopher Armstrong Chapman
• Mitarbeit: Paul Armstrong (Herausgeber), Armstrong Paul (Herausgeber), Christopher Chapman (Herausgeber), Alma Harris (Herausgeber), Daniel Muijs (Herausgeber), Muijs Daniel (Herausgeber), David Reynolds (Herausgeber), Pam Sammons (Herausgeber), Sammons Pam (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 07.12.2011
• EAN: 9780415698948
• ISBN: 978-0-415-69894-8
• Seiten: 308
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Erwachsenenbildung; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Schools, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General