Capacity Building for School Improvement
Revisited
Published on 3. September 2013
XIV, 130 pages
978-94-6209-329-4 (ISBN)
Description
At a time when there is a high demand for capacity building in schools, many administrators and practitioners find little if any empirical studies on how this can be achieved in practice. Through the eyes of an experienced researcher, schoolteacher, senior administrator and university lecturer, this book captures how a low decile school in New Zealand successfully built its capacity for improvement. Dr. Patricia Stringer allows the reader, who could be anyone with an interest in education, leadership and school development, to identify contextual problems and difficulties that limit capacity building and suggests pathways to overcome them. This is an easy to read and enjoyable book, but, one that digs deep into practice. The researcher spent over a year working with the staff, board and parents of this school discovering and recording authentic information about this school's successful journey to success. For the researcher, this was an exciting experience; one that needs to be shared with the wider educational community. A must read book.
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Content
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction; Purpose and Focus; Change and Links to Capacity Building; Organisation; 1. Setting the Stage; Reforms Linked to Capacity Building and School Improvement; School Improvement and Capacity Building: Terms Defined; Issues Affecting Capacity Building for School Improvement; Neo-liberal Reforms of the 1990s in New Zealand; Funding; Decentralisation and Accountability; Governance; The Varied Nature of Low Socio economic Contexts; Theoretical Model of Capacity Building for School Improvement ; Conclusion ; 2. School Attribute: Vision; The Importance of Vision; External and Internal Influences on Vision; A Socially Constructed Vision; Central Tenets; Student Centred Learning; Improvement mindset; Empowerment; Community; Vision Construction: Conceptualisation, Transmission and Evolution; Vision Conceptualisation; Vision Transmission; Vision Evolution; Closing the Vision/Realty Gap; Vision: Capacity Building Links; Conclusion.
