Radical Reforms: Perspectives on an Era of Educational Change

ISBN-13: 9780415464024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str.

Christopher Chapman;Helen Gunter

Opis

This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times. The post-1997 English experience, under a New Labour government, is used to illustrate the opportunities and challenges associated with attempting to develop a world class education system. Such reforms are fiercely contested - and often polarized - with proponents stressing the opportunities created, while others reveal the erosion of professional values. Contributions from UK and overseas researchers, including Andy Hargreaves and John Smyth, reflect on the implications for those concerned with developing education systems across the globe.
　
Focusing on the challenges of radical reform in key areas - including variation in educational achievement; accountability and standards; linking school and community policies; workforce reform and choice and diversity - the book includes chapters on:
　
Accountability for School Improvement

Workforce-modelling and Distributed Leadership

Multi-agency Work and Children's Services The Education and Poverty Link Personalised Learning Initial Teacher Education

Drawing on the framework developed by New Labour to assess the approaches to and outcomes of interventions and the extent to which policies can deliver promised transformations - but going much deeper and wider than this - the authors present a critical account of reform by studying examples of policies, and conceptualizing the interplay between policy, practice and research.
　
With contributions from leading international commentators, this book will be of interest to researchers in education, education policy and school leadership.

During the past decade, international commentators and researchers have likened England to a science laboratory where the rate of experimentation has developed at a frenetic pace. Some governments have watched this situation with interest but from a distance, others have attempted to transfer policies and interventions across geographical and cultural boundaries. Focusing on education as a major area of public policy in England, this book explores a decade of rapid and intensive modernization and draws out the lessons for those concerned with developing education systems across the globe.

The contributors not only examine the strategic aspects of reforming the public sector through major policy initiatives but move inside the policy process and ask: what does it mean to engage in centralized reform, what opportunities are there, what is in danger of being lost, who is involved, in what ways and why, and how might localised policy making make a difference?

Spis treści

1. A decade of New Labour reform of education  2.   3. Accountability for Improvement  4. Raising Standards  5. Control and Response in primary school teacher's work  6. School Leaders  7. Re-modelling and Distributed Leadership  8. Initial Teacher Education  9. New Provisions of Schooling  10. Networking a more equitable educational future?  11. Personalized Learning  12. Swing, Swing Together: Multi-Agency work in the new children's services  13. New Labour and breaking the education and poverty link  14. Using research to foster inclusion and equity within the context of New Labour education reforms  15. Debating New Labour Education Policy  16. Another decade of reform?