Restructuring and Quality

The restructuring of schools systems across the world has been controversial. Have reforms been driven by a desire to cut educational budgets or the need to improve the quality of educational provision? This book explores the restructuring movement, with a particular emphasis on how decentralisation of power has affected the quality of education. It provides a broad and international picture of educational reform.

List of illustrations

xi

(2)

Notes on contributors

xiii

(6)

Preface

xix

(6)

Acknowledgements

xv

Part I Restructuring for quality in schools

3

(78)

1 Quality and equality in education: central issues in the restructuring of education

3

(13)

Barry McGaw

Economic context

4

(7)

Educational context

11

(2)

Cultural context

13

(1)

Equity

14

(2)

2 Connecting school effectiveness and school improvement: what have we learnt in the last ten years?

16

(19)

Louise Stoll

David Reynolds

Introduction -- two different paradigms

16

(1)

The call for links

17

(1)

The need for merger

18

(13)

The continuing challenge

31

(1)

Conclusions

32

(3)

3 Restructuring through school-based management: insights for improving tomorrow's schools

35

(26)

Joseph Murphy

Restructuring unpacked

35

(4)

What is school-based management?

39

(5)

Implications for stakeholder roles

43

(6)

Conditions to facilitate SBM

49

(5)

Epilogue and prologue

54

(7)

4 Autonomy and mutuality: quality education and self-managing schools

61

(20)

Judith Chapman

David Aspin

Overview

63

(1)

The concept of quality

63

(3)

The operationalisation and implementation of quality schooling

66

(3)

The redistribution of power and administrative responsibilities

69

(3)

Autonomy and mutuality

72

(1)

Agenda for reform

72

(9)

Part II Assuring quality in schools and school systems

81

(62)

5 Inspection and school improvement in England and Wales: national contexts and local realities

81

(19)

Kathryn Riley

David Rowles

Introduction: the move to national inspection

81

(10)

Changes since 1993: movement along the continuum

91

(1)

The OFSTED inspection model

92

(8)

6 Quality assurance for schools: case study - New South Wales

100

(15)

Peter Cuttance

Introduction

100

(1)

Relationship between quality improvement and quality assurance

100

(1)

Approaches to quality improvement and quality assurance in business and government

101

(1)

Differences between public and private sector in the framework for managing quality

102

(1)

Quality improvement and quality assurance for school systems

103

(5)

NSW quality assurance reviews of school performance and development

108

(1)

The school review process

109

(4)

Discussion

113

(2)

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

115

(28)

Ken Rae

Introduction

115

(1)

International and New Zealand contexts of educational administration

115

(7)

Five impacts on New Zealand schools in 1996

122

(8)

Discussion

130

(6)

Conclusion

136

(7)

Part III The impact of restructuring on schools and school systems

143

(72)

8 Underlying the chaos: factors explaining exemplary US elementary schools and the case for high-reliability organisations

143

(18)

Sam Stringfield

The four longitudinal cases

143

(9)

High-reliability organisations

152

(6)

Summary

158

(3)

9 Systemic reform: a case study on restructuring one American public high school

161

(21)

Judy Codding

The American reform agenda

162

(3)

Restructuring an American urban high school

165

(4)

New curriculum and instructional strategies to help all students achieve high standards

169

(8)

An action plan for `break the mould' change

177

(3)

Final thoughts

180

(2)

10 Weaving school and teacher development together

182

(17)

Dean Fink

Louise Stoll

The traditional learning paradigm

184

(2)

The emerging learning paradigm

186

(2)

School effectiveness and the emerging learning paradigm

188

(1)

The weave: a metaphor for change

189

(6)

Conclusion

195

(4)

11 Schools of the future: a case study in systemic educational development

199

(16)

Tony Townsend

Context and background of schools of the future

199

(1)

Development of the programme

200

(2)

Elements of schools of the future

202

(6)

Research into schools of the future

208

(1)

Evaluation of the project

209

(3)

Concluding remarks

212

(3)

Afterword: problems and possibilities for tomorrow's schools

215

(13)

Tony Townsend

The problems

215

(8)

The possibilities

223

(5)

Index

228

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