This book explores the connections between school-based management, school effectiveness and school improvement, bringing together studies completed in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA.
Author: Clive Dimmock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317835721
Category: Education
Page: 292
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This book explores the connections between school-based management, school effectiveness and school improvement, bringing together studies completed in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA. It describes and analyses how effective principals and teachers perceive and undertake educational change and school-based management; how a sense of values, vision and school culture can improve leadership; ways in whcih delegating financial management to schools may lead to improved teaching and learning; and the contribution made by school development planning through reviews and evaluation to school improvement. Finally, it suggests future directions for study and research in school effectiveness, school improvement and school-based management.
As illustrated in Chapter 4 and this chapter, the ongoing school-based management movement aims at enhancing the autonomy of members at the site-level in creating advantageous conditions for participation, improvement, innovation, ...
Author: Yin Cheong Cheng
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135784195
Category: Education
Page: 220
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The aim of this book is to bridge the widening gap between ongoing educational reforms and the lack of advances in knowledge, research and practice. Included is a description of new mechanisms in fields such as leadership, staff development and curriculum change.
educational motives or political imperatives, is based on reforms in schoolbased management and school-level practices. A focus on school-based management therefore seems a sine qua non for improving the quality of education.
Author: Clive Dimmock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317835738
Category: Education
Page: 264
View: 114
This book explores the connections between school-based management, school effectiveness and school improvement, bringing together studies completed in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA. It describes and analyses how effective principals and teachers perceive and undertake educational change and school-based management; how a sense of values, vision and school culture can improve leadership; ways in whcih delegating financial management to schools may lead to improved teaching and learning; and the contribution made by school development planning through reviews and evaluation to school improvement. Finally, it suggests future directions for study and research in school effectiveness, school improvement and school-based management.
As discussed, school-based management is a major school reform of the second wave in many areas of Asia and other parts of the world. Since the 1990s, it has aimed at enhancing school autonomy and then interface effectiveness to meet ...
Author: Tony Townsend
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402057472
Category: Education
Page: 1017
View: 460
This book reviews of the development, implementation and practice of the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement. Seven main topics are addressed: History of the school effectiveness movement over the last 25 years; Changes in accountability and standards; Leadership in school effectiveness; Changes in teacher education; Impact of Diverse Populations; Education Funding and its Impact; and Best Practice Case Studies. The contributors are active in school effectiveness research worldwide.
David T. Gamage and Joseph Zajda 1.1 School-Based Management (SBM) and Improving School Effectiveness The focus on the individual school as the key to successful reform strategies has a good deal of public appeal and research support.
Author: Joseph Zajda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048127033
Category: Education
Page: 238
View: 155
This book, which is the eighth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in decentralisation, school-based management (SBM) and quality in education globally. This book, which focuses on decentralisation and SBM as a governance strategy in education, presents theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of decentralisation/privatisation and contextualises them within the education research literature. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information concerning the dynamics of decentralisation and SBM that normally take place when reforms are instituted to decentralize authority and power. Above all, the authors offering the latest findings regarding major discourses in dec- tralisation, SBM and quality in educational systems in the global culture emphasise aspects of that dynamic interactive process (see also Geo-JaJa 2006a; Gamage and Sooksomchitra 2006, Zajda 2009). This dynamic interaction in the process that is implicit in the title of the book is reified by calls for restructuring of schools f- lowing the idea that schools are not promoting human rights, social cohesion and sustainable development. The chapters as a source book of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in decentralisation and SBM in education contr- ute to the educational literature while enhancing the understanding of the larger dynamics involved in educational reform. It offers a timely overview of current issues affecting decentralisation in education in the global culture.
Author: International Journal of Educational ReformPublish On: 1999-01-01
Hopefully, the Hong Kong case of school-based management can provide useful implications for policy research, implementation ... School effectiveness and school-based management: A mechanism for education quality and school development.
Author: International Journal of Educational Reform
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781475816150
Category: Reference
Page: 107
View: 903
The mission of the International Journal of Educational Reform (IJER) is to keep readers up-to-date with worldwide developments in education reform by providing scholarly information and practical analysis from recognized international authorities. As the only peer-reviewed scholarly publication that combines authors’ voices without regard for the political affiliations perspectives, or research methodologies, IJER provides readers with a balanced view of all sides of the political and educational mainstream. To this end, IJER includes, but is not limited to, inquiry based and opinion pieces on developments in such areas as policy, administration, curriculum, instruction, law, and research. IJER should thus be of interest to professional educators with decision-making roles and policymakers at all levels turn since it provides a broad-based conversation between and among policymakers, practitioners, and academicians about reform goals, objectives, and methods for success throughout the world. Readers can call on IJER to learn from an international group of reform implementers by discovering what they can do that has actually worked. IJER can also help readers to understand the pitfalls of current reforms in order to avoid making similar mistakes. Finally, it is the mission of IJER to help readers to learn about key issues in school reform from movers and shakers who help to study and shape the power base directing educational reform in the U.S. and the world.
Author: National Foundation for Educational ResearchPublish On: 1995
SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS 10/0243 antisocial behaviour; behaviour problems; delinquency prevention; ... preservice teacher education; school effectiveness 10/0671 administrator role; educational change; head teachers; management in ...
Author: National Foundation for Educational Research
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415132435
Category: Education
Page: 438
View: 891
This latest volume lists all the major research projects being undertaken in Britain during the latter months of 1992, the whole of 1993 and the early months of 1995.
( 104 footnotes ) ( MLF ) source Allocation , School Based Management , School Community Relationship , * School ... function successfully ; ( 2 ) school improvement plans have focused more on " add - ons " than on altering the regular ...
Because of the partnership between the community and the school, more resources in the form of voluntary services and ... In the final analysis, SBM has made schools more autonomous, flexible, participatory, accountable and effective in ...
There are 542 LSCs citywide , so in any given month over four thousand teachers , parents , and community representatives participate in school decision making . Assessing the effectiveness of SBM is difficult .
Author: Kathryn A. McDermott
Publisher: Studies in Government & Public
ISBN: UOM:39015047548667
Category: Education
Page: 232
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Most Americans believe that local school districts are the only means by which citizens may exercise control over public education. Kathryn McDermott argues to the contrary that existing local institutions are no longer sufficient for achieving either equity or democratic governance. Not only is local control inequitable, it also fails to live up to its reputation for guaranteeing public participation and citizen influence. Drawing upon democratic theory and the results of field research in New Haven, Connecticut, and three suburbs, McDermott contends that our educational system can be made more democratic by centralizing control over funding while decentralizing most authority over schools to the level of schools themselves while enacting public school choice controlled for racial balance. To many people in Connecticut and elsewhere, the tension between equal opportunity for all students and local control of public education seems impossible to resolve. In 1996, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Sheff v. O'Neill that local control produces unconstitutional segregation of public schools. Nearly all of the state's 169 towns operate their own public schools, and, like the towns they serve, the schools are generally homogeneous with respect to race and socioeconomic class. In the Sheff ruling, the court declared that making school districts coterminous with town lines "is the single most important factor contributing to the present concentration of racial and ethnic minorities in the Hartford public school system." At the same time, the court also acknowledged that the town-based school system "presently furthers the legitimate nonracial interests of permitting considerable local control and accountability in educational matters." In Connecticut and elsewhere, it has often seemed necessary to choose between local control and equity in public education, and local control has almost always won. McDermott argues that rather than seeing local control and equity as conflicting goals, policymakers should regard them as equally important components of democracy in public education. In her view, a truly democratic system of education should both encourage citizen participation in school governance and contribute to the formation and maintenance of a social order in which equality of opportunity prevails over hierarchies of privilege. Centralizing distribution of resources and using controlled choice to end racial isolation would provide greater equality of opportunity, while decentralizing management of schools would expand citizen participation. McDermott's conclusions break new ground in our understanding of local school governance itself and call into question the conventional wisdom about local participation. These findings should interest those who study school governance and reform—especially in an urban setting—as well as policy makers, administrators, teachers, students, and citizens eager to improve their schools.