School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice : Challenging the Orthodoxy? (Hardcover)

Introduction  Part 1: Foundations of the Field  1. School Effectiveness Research  2. School Improvement Research & Practice  3. School Effectiveness and School Improvement Theory  4. School Effectiveness and School Improvement Methods  Part 2: School Effectiveness and School Improvement in Practice: Examples from the field  5. The Challenge of Equity  6. Dealing with Division?  7. The Potency of History and Culture  8. The imperative of Improvement  Part 3: Current Developments and Future Directions  9. Placing improvement at the centre of practice  10. Changing times for changing systems  11. Thinking locally acting globally  12. Towards sustainable schooling  13. Daring to think of the future  14. Policy and Practice  Part 4: Meeting the challenge; beyond the orthodoxy  15. Conclusion