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School Effectiveness for Whom? Challenges to the School Effectiveness and School Improvement Movements

By Sally Tomlinson , Roger Slee , Gaby Weiner

Book information

Publisher
Falmer Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0750706708, 9780750706704, 0750706694, 0203267419, 0203209257
Open Library ID
OL445507M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
856 kB (876212 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
197\204
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

School effectiveness research together with what is now described as the 'school improvement movement' (Barber, 1996) has captured both the Conservative and New Labour imaginations as a basis for educational planning and policy making in the UK. Internationally school effectiveness enjoys and expanding and enthusiastic audience.This book provides a critique of this research genre, particularly in the light of the recent calls for teaching to go 'back to the basics'. The editors argue that this school effectiveness research is simplistic in its analysis of educational problems. Far from getting to the bottom of the problem of failing students and schools, they argue, these 'movements' are merely scratching at the surface of the problems and coming up with notions for superficial improvements.

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