challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements /
edited by Roger Slee and Gaby Weiner with Sally Tomlinson.
Bristol, PA :
Falmer Press,
1998.
1 online resource (vi, 197 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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.
School effectiveness for whom?.
0750706694
School improvement programs-- Great Britain.
School management and organization-- United States.