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Informationen zum Autor David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press. Klappentext In his latest educational exposé, internationally acclaimed author and scholar, Professor David Hopkins, places established and emerging ideas about effective school and system improvement under scrutiny. Exploding the Myths of School Reform confronts real-world challenges and perspectives from research, policy and practice, and draws on international benchmarking studies to support its objectives and claims. With each of ten chapters addressing a perceptible fallacy - such as the myths that poverty determines performance, that achievement cannot be realised at scale, that innovation and networking always add value and that it is curriculum rather than learning that counts - this groundbreaking manifesto is set to provoke and persuade.Through its carefully structured narrative highlighting areas of universal concern, the book presents a compelling approach to school reform, designed to enhance not only academic performance, but also the potential for students to learn. Teachers, school leaders, directors, policy makers and researchers-educationalists from across the board-will find the instructive frameworks and 'codas' for systemic change at all levels disarmingly simple to understand and apply. The same values and strategies that uphold social equity are shown to also promote quality in teaching, strong system leadership, regional capacity building and whole school design. Replete with explanatory diagrams, Exploding the Myths of School Reform contributes with depth and precision to the contemporary debate about the direction of schools and school systems, the possibilities and issues most likely to be encountered by leaders today and tomorrow, and the means to instigate authentic and lasting reform. Zusammenfassung This book looks at the failure of educational reform efforts to impact on the learning and performance of students due to misguided action based on a number of myths associated with school reform which remain prevalent in education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Reader guide The myth that achievement cannot be realised at scale for all students The myth of school autonomy and the reality of change The myth that poverty is a determinant of student and school performance The myth that it is the curriculum rather than the learning that counts The myth that teaching is either an art or a science The myth that external accountability results in sustained school reform The myth that innovation and networking always add value to school reform The myth of the contribution of charismatic leadership to school reform The myth that 'one size fits all' in implementing school reform The myth that market forces drive educational excellence...
