School Effectiveness for Whom? Challenges to the School Effectiveness and School Improvement Movements

✍ Scribed by Roger Slee, Sally Tomlinson, Gaby Weiner

Publisher: Falmer Press
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 204
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conservative and New Labour imaginations as a basis for educational planning and policy making in the UK. Internationally school effectiveness enjoys and expanding and enthusiastic audience.This book provides a critique of this research genre, particularly in the light of the recent calls for teaching to go 'back to the basics'. The editors argue that this school effectiveness research is simplistic in its analysis of educational problems. Far from getting to the bottom of the problem of failing students and schools, they argue, these 'movements' are merely scratching at the surface of the problems and coming up with notions for superficial improvements.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction: School Effectiveness for Whom?......Page 8
Setting the Debates......Page 18
The Idols of the Market Place......Page 20
Cultures of Blame and Redemption;When Empowerment Becomes Control: Practitioners' Views of the Effective Schools Movement......Page 28
The Tyranny of the International Horse Race......Page 40
Theorizing the Debates......Page 56
Models of Effective Schools: Limits and Capabilities......Page 58
Educational Studies, Policy Entrepreneurship and Social Theory......Page 77
School Effects in Postmodern Conditions......Page 91
High Reliability Organizations and Liability Students;The Politics of Recognition......Page 108
Experiencing the Impacts of School Effectiveness Research and the School Improvement Movement......Page 122
Realizing the Mission: Catholic Approaches to School Effectiveness......Page 124
Effective Teachers for Effective Schools......Page 135
A Tale of Two Schools in One City: Foxwood and Cross Green......Page 151
A Tale of One School in One City: Hackney Downs......Page 164
The Utility of Qualitative Research for Influencing Policy and Practice on School Effectiveness......Page 177
Notes on Contributors......Page 194
Index......Page 198

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