Quality Schooling
A Pragmatic Approach to Some Current Problems, Topics and Issues
Published on 1. November 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-304-32753-9 (ISBN)
Description
What constitutes quality schooling and what are its implications for educational practice and school administration? This book looks at these questions and examines international reform initiatives in the 1980s - with particular emphasis on the USA, the UK and Australia. The authors argue that these examples illustrate the dilemmas of both centralized, managerial educational control and school-based and decentralized educational governance. They claim that the challenge now facing educational leaders is to find a balance.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 168 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-304-32753-9 (9780304327539)
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Content
The concept of quality and the provision of quality schooling; the international concern for quality in schooling; quality schooling - the relationship between theory, research, policy development and practice; the quality debate; the search for quality in schooling - curriculum, teaching and learning; restructuring education in the interests of quality - the school, the community and the system; redefining the curriculum - towards an integration; democratic values and the democratic school; the nature and justification of democracy; creating and managing a democratic school; autonomy and mutuality - towards a new conceptualisation of relationships in quality schooling; the operationalization and implementation of quality schooling; the role of teacher education and universities in school reform.