Research Catalog

Title

Restructuring and quality : issues for tomorrow's schools / edited by Tony Townsend.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Townsend, Tony.

Description

xxiii, 231 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Educational management series

Uniform Title

Educational management series

Subject

• School management and organization > Case studies
• Educational change > Case studies
• School improvement programs > Case studies
• Educational change
• School improvement programs
• School management and organization
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Qualitätssteigerung
• Schule
• Großbritannien

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• pt. I. Restructuring for quality in schools. 1. Quality and equality in education: central issues in the restructuring of education / Barry McGaw. 2. Connecting school effectiveness and school improvement: what have we learnt in the last ten years? / Louise Stoll and David Reynolds. 3. Restructuring through school-based management: insights for improving tomorrow's schools / Joseph Murphy. 4. Autonomy and mutuality: quality education and self-managing schools / Judith Chapman and David Aspin -- pt. II. Assuring quality in schools and school systems. 5. Inspection and school improvement in England and Wales: national contexts and local realities / Kathryn Riley and David Rowles. 6. Quality assurance for schools: case study -- New South Wales / Peter Cuttance. 7. Ano te Hutinga o te Harakeke (The plucking still of the flaxbush): New Zealand's self-managing schools and five impacts from the ongoing restructuring of educational administration / Ken Rae.
• pt. III. The impact of restructuring on schools and school systems. 8. Underlying the chaos: factors explaining exemplary US elementary schools and the case for high-reliability organisations / Sam Stringfield. 9. Systemic reform: a case study on restructuring one American public high school / Judy Codding. 10. Weaving school and teacher development together / Dean Fink and Louise Stoll. 11. Schools of the future: a case study in systemic educational development / Tony Townsend -- Afterword: problems and possibilities for tomorrow's schools / Tony Townsend.

ISBN

• 0415133386
• 9780415133388
• 0415133394
• 9780415133395

LCCN

96047827

OCLC

• ocm35842618
• 35842618
• SCSB-2129699

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library