My School: Listening to Parents, Teachers and Students from a Disadvantaged Educational Setting

ISBN-13: 9780815356097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Australia) Lesley (University of Sydney Scanlon

Opis

Drawing on 500 interviews conducted over a four period with the Principal, parents, teachers and students at a regional low SES school, this book challenges the profile of one school as represented on the ‘My School’ website which publishes the results of National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Chapters situate the original research within an international and national educational context, before exploring topics including leadership and management, student behaviour, constructs of the ‘good teacher’, the involvement of parents in school and the ‘digital revolution’. The book closes with an appraisal of the major themes that emerged from the multiple perspectives of the study.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Methodology  2. Global Education Policy: a big story  3. Australian Education Policy: another big story  4. The Principal’s School: the challenges of leading and managing the ‘education revolution’  5. Grange Teachers: promoting learning through working with colleagues, students and parents  6. Teachers and Policy: enacting the ‘education revolution’ in the classroom  7. Grange Students: the impact of teachers and peers on my learning  8. Students and Policy: partners with teachers in classroom policy enactment  9. Grange Parents: engaging with my child’s education  10. ‘It is our school; it is we, us, our.’

O autorze

Lesley Scanlon is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Australia. Lesley has over 30 years’ experience in secondary schools, technical and further education, and universities. Her research interests include the formation of professional identities and the impact of education policy on disadvantaged schools.