Effective Schooling for the Community: Core-Plus Education

ISBN-13: 9780415104180 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str.

Tony Townsend

Opis

Education systems are currently under challenge to teach new skills and competencies to all their students, and to function under increasing financial constraints. The effectiveness of schools to meet these challenges is being questioned by politicians, business leaders and academics worldwide; school effectiveness has become one of the important themes of world education.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: an international perspective on school effectiveness; Chapter 2 The effective school: towards a framework of understanding; Chapter 3 Community perceptions of effective schools; Chapter 4 Effective schools: the case studies; Chapter 5 The core-plus school; Chapter 6 Developing the core-plus school:a model for action; Chapter 7 Leadership in the core-plus school; Chapter 8 Process Issues for core-plus education; Chapter 9 From community needs to core-plus policies; Chapter 10 Programmes in the core-plus school; Chapter 11 Financing and managing the core-plus school; Afterword: a vision for the next century;

O autorze

Tony Townsend is Director of the South Pacific Centre for School and Community Development, and is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.