Implementing Educational Reform: Cases and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781108836401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 260 str.

Colleen McLaughlin; Alan Ruby

Opis

A collection and analysis of eight education reform case studies, capturing successes, failures and choices faced in implementation.

Recenzje

'This book offers governments, policymakers, and academics systematic guidelines and strengthens practitioner knowledge to improve the design and implementation of education reform with regard to local conditions. […] this volume succeeds in advancing the conversation on the effective implementation of reform and creating space for further research.' Yi Liu, Comparative Education

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Why focus on implementation in education reform? Alan Ruby and Colleen McLaughlin; 2. Promoting equity in education through system change: some lessons from England and Wales Mel Ainscow; 3. A decade of education reform in Hong Kong Mary James; 4. Reforming a school system – the case of Kazakhstan Colleen McLaughlin, Liz Winter, Olena Fimyar and Natallia Yakavets; 5. Pursuing greater autonomy for Post-Soviet universities: an illustration from Kazakhstan Matthew Hartley and Alan Ruby; 6. School improvement by design in the USA: why it's needed, how it works, and how it can be improved Brian Rowan; 7. Promising practice in government schools in Vietnam Tony McAleavy and Rachael Fitzpatrick; 8. Education reform implementation lessons: a case study of high-performing Singapore Saravanan – S. Gopinathan and Edmund Lim; 9. Qatar's road to education reform: the need for teacher autonomy Asmaa Alfadala, Stavros N. Yiannouka and Omar Zaki; 10. What have we learned about implementation? Colleen McLaughlin and Alan Ruby.