School effectiveness for whom? : challenges to the school effectiveness and school improvement movements / edited by Roger Slee and Gaby Weiner with Sally Tomlinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Slee, Roger.

Weiner, Gaby.

Tomlinson, Sally.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--Great Britain.

School improvement programs.

School management and organization--United States.

School management and organization.

Physical Description:

vi, 197 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Bristol, Pa. : Falmer Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: School Effectiveness for Whom? / Roger Slee

Part I: Setting the Debates

Chapter 2 The Idols of the Market Place / David Hamilton

Chapter 3 Cultures of Blame and Redemption When Empowerment Becomes Control: Practitioners Views of the Effective Schools Movement / Joe Rea

Chapter 4 The Tyranny of the International Horse Race / Margaret Brown

Part II: Theorizing the Debates

Chapter 5 Models of Effective Schools: Limits and Capabilities / Hugh Lauder

Chapter 6 Educational Studies, Policy Entrepreneurship and Social Theory / Stephen J.Ball

Chapter 7 School Effects in Postmodern Conditions / Bob Lingard

Chapter 8 High Reliability Organizations and Liability Students The Politics of Recognition / Roger Slee

Part III: Experiencing the Impacts of School Effectiveness Research and the School Improvement Movement

Chapter 9 Realizing the Mission: Catholic Approaches to School Effectiveness / Gerald Grace

Chapter 10 Effective Teachers for Effective Schools / Ian Hextall

Chapter 11 A Tale of Two Schools in One City: Foxwood and Cross Green / Bob Spooner

Chapter 12 A Tale of One School in One City: Hackney Downs / Sally Tomlinson

Chapter 13 The Utility of Qualitative Research for Influencing Policy and Practice on School Effectiveness / Sheila Riddell.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-71373-1

1-135-71374-X

1-280-40246-6

0-585-46053-1

0-203-20925-7

9780203209257

OCLC:

52741331