The Pendulum Swings: Transforming School Reform - Brossura

Barker, Bernard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1858564689 ISBN 13: 9781858564685

Casa editrice: Trentham Books Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Discontent with failed, top-down reform and the immediate prospect of political change have created a rare opportunity to reinvent education policy and to think afresh about how teachers and children should be encouraged to develop their full potential. The Pendulum Swings explores alternative, genuinely transformative conceptions of leadership and learning and shows how they could become the foundation for effectively improving our schools.

Since 1988, education reform has been driven by what Bernard Barker shows to be a delusion. The notion that learning can be improved through market place competition, regulation and inspection, quick leadership fixes, and best practice recipes, has proved wholly untrue. New Labour's education policies have become the single biggest obstacle to school improvement. In the year of a general election, the pendulum in education is swinging away from markets and measurement towards a humane and professional approach to schools and learning. This timely book shows that policy makers must change their thinking completely, or schools will be trapped in cycles of perpetual change that lead nowhere.

Bernard Barker is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Management, School of Education, University of Leicester. He headed comprehensive community colleges in Cambridgeshire and Leicester for 19 years and is the author of the acclaimed Transforming Schools - illusion or reality?

`This is a book about doing schools differently ... a book of commitment to a better future and a book, ultimately, of hope.' Meg Maguire

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Recensione

...the strengths of Barkers book lie not only in the historical perspective that informs its understanding of contemporary school reform in England, but also in its use of this perspective to review important and unresolved political debates concerning the future direction of educational reform in the context of major public expenditure cuts that are about to take hold - History of Education Bernard Barker delivers a historically informed and contemporarily relevant review of school reform in England drawing on a wide range of intellectual resources - --Journal of Educational Administration and History

L'autore

Bernard Barker Is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Management, University of Leicester and author of the acclaimed Transforming Schools - illusion or reality? He headed comprehensive community colleges in Cambridgeshire and Leicester for 19 years and is author of the acclaimed Transforming Schools illusion or reality

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• Editore: Trentham Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1858564689
• ISBN 13: 9781858564685
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192