School effectiveness for whom? : challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements /

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A collection of essays that challenge the school effectiveness and school improvement movements. Particular criticism is levelled at the disassociation of what goes on in schools from the world at large.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Slee, Roger, Weiner, Gaby, Tomlinson, Sally
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Bristol, PA : Falmer Press, 1998.
Subjects:
School improvement programs > Great Britain.
School management and organization > United States.
Enseignement > Réforme > Grande-Bretagne.
Administration scolaire > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
School improvement programs
School management and organization
Great Britain
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction: School Effectiveness for Whom?; Setting the Debates; The Idols of the Market Place; Cultures of Blame and Redemption; When Empowerment Becomes Control: Practitioners' Views of the Effective Schools Movement; The Tyranny of the International Horse Race; Theorizing the Debates; Models of Effective Schools: Limits and Capabilities; Educational Studies, Policy Entrepreneurship and Social Theory; School Effects in Postmodern Conditions; High Reliability Organizations and Liability Students; The Politics of Recognition.

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