challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Roger Slee and Gaby Weiner with Sally Tomlinson.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Bristol, PA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Falmer Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vi, 197 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
School effectiveness for whom?.
International Standard Book Number
0750706694
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
School improvement programs-- Great Britain.
School management and organization-- United States.