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School improvement : an unofficial approach / Martin Thrupp.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.84.G7 T47 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thrupp, Martin, 1964-
- Series:
- Improving schools series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--Great Britain.
- School improvement programs.
- Evaluation.
- Great Britain.
- School improvement programs--Great Britain--Evaluation.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 144 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2005]
- Summary:
- Argues that there has to be a bigger educational and social justice agenda to school improvement than the managerial approaches typically taken by government policy. The author critiques those school improvement texts, courses, and consultancies, which mostly frame their analyses within the terms of policy, and therefore act to apologise for it.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082646503X
- 0826465048
- OCLC:
- 61478090
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