How much do schools really matter? How sure are we on "what works" in education and why? Why is it that certain educational practices work better than others in improving educational effectiveness? In this book, recent research and theoretical interpretations are used in a critical analysis of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness. It offers new insights into the most promising levers for school improvement and shows future directions for educational research. In the first part of the book, concepts of school and educational analysis are defined, and various alternative perspectives...
How much do schools really matter? How sure are we on "what works" in education and why? Why is it that certain educational practices work better than...
The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates. Understood in the sense of education being generally okay, or rather, most frequently, as not okay . Perhaps there is an overruling nostalgic view that formerly education was better than today. In scholarly discourse there are those who maintain that the quality of education is an illusive term, with varying interpretations in different settings and by different stakeholders.
In this book the complexity of the concept of education quality is recognized, but a conceptual framework is presented that makes...
The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates. Understood in the sense of education being generally okay, or rather,...
This highly detailed study maps four decades of evolution of the concept of what constitutes effective school leadership. It analyses the theoretical background to these developments and advocates the utility of thinking of a lean form of school leadership that is comparable to the concept of meta-control . A wide-ranging survey of the empirical research literature on leadership effects includes the presentation of results from earlier meta-analyses as well as a new meta-analysis on some 25 studies carried out between 2005 and 2010. This survey demonstrates that older reviews and...
This highly detailed study maps four decades of evolution of the concept of what constitutes effective school leadership. It analyses the theoretical ...
