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

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