Perspectives on School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Perspectives on School Effectiveness and School Improvement
ISBN-10
0854735011
ISBN-13
9780854735013
Category
Education / General
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Institute of Education, University of London
Authors
Michael Barber, Louise Stoll

Description

This collection of papers presents the debate between supporters and critics of the school effectiveness movement. School effectiveness research explores the different contributions schools make to pupils' learning and the factors that make some schools more successful than others. Politically influential, helping to shape the education policies of the two main parties, it has also been used at a practical level to generate programmes and policies for school improvement. Members of the Institute of Education's School Effectiveness and Improvement Centre (ISEIC), which leads the field in research in this area, contribute papers to this volume that both describe the research and reply to criticisms of it, while other contributors from both within and outside the Institute provide philosophical, sociological and cross-cultural critiques, which are challenged in an Endpiece by Peter Mortimore and Pam Sammons.

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