Educational Change & School Reform Books

New and Published Books

1. Cultivating an Ethical School

   By Robert J. Starratt

   Often the school is left as an institution seemingly ethically neutral, leaving untouched questions about whether the school itself is a site of injustice toward both educators and children. Springing from his well-known Building an Ethical School, Robert J. Starratt now looks more closely at the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Improving Quality in Education

   Dynamic Approaches to School Improvement

   By Bert P.M. Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides

   This book explores an approach to school improvement that merges the traditions of educational effectiveness research and school improvement efforts. It displays how the dynamic model, which is theoretical and empirically validated, can be used in both traditions. Each chapter integrates evidence...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. Applied Critical Leadership in Education

   Choosing Change

   By Lorri J. Santamaría, Andrés P. Santamaría

   Educational leaders are seeing the increasing need for practical transformative models and theories to address academic, cultural, and socio-economic gaps separating learners at all levels of the educational system. Applied Critical Leadership in Education explores a leadership model arising from...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
4. The Transformation of Children’s Services

   Examining and debating the complexities of inter/professional working

   Edited by Joan Forbes, Cate Watson

   Can we imagine different ways of working together to secure better outcomes for children and families? What are the complex issues that underlie the apparently simple call for ‘joined-up’ services? Children’s services in many countries around the world are being transformed as part of the call for...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. Beyond the School Gates

   Can Full Service and Extended Schools Overcome Disadvantage?

   By Colleen Cummings, Alan Dyson, Liz Todd

   This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new phenomenon to ask: What do extended or full service schools hope to achieve, and why should services based on...

   Published April 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children

   A Science of Performance Model for Research

   By Stuart McNaughton

   How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Educational Futures

   Dominant and Contesting Visions

   By Ivana Milojevic

   This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the...

   Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education

   Improving Instructional Practice and Student Learning in Schools

   By Allan R. Odden

   Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "talent and human capital." Grounded in extensive research and examples of leading edge districts, this book shows how the entire human resource system in...

   Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge
9. Critical Curriculum Leadership

   A Framework for Progressive Education

   By Rose M. Ylimaki

   Although traditional curriculum and instructional leadership frameworks have dominated educational administration training for almost thirty years, it has become increasingly clear that even the most recent frameworks have failed today’s leaders who struggle with the politics of curriculum...

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
10. Refocusing School Leadership

    Foregrounding Human Development throughout the Work of the School

    By Robert J. Starratt

    Refocusing School Leadership departs from the more traditional conceptualization of leadership, looking behind the daily routines of human resource leaders to highlight the assumptions and values and beliefs they bring to their work as well as the values and meanings embedded in the various...

    Published August 11th 2010 by Routledge