1st Edition
Reforming or Re-inventing Schools? Key Issues in School and System Reform
Introduction
Chapter 1 Plus ça change
John MacBeath
Chapter 2 What makes a world class education system?
John MacBeath
Chapter 3 What does it mean to be a teacher?
Maurice Galton
Chapter 4 Assessment, exams and testing to destruction
Maurice Galton
Chapter 5 What’s so special about special needs?
John MacBeath
Chapter 6 Within and beyond the primary curriculum
Maurice Galton
Chapter 7 Who wins and who loses?
John MacBeath
Chapter 8 The organised voice of teachers
John Bangs
Chapter 9 Community schools and schooling communities?
John MacBeath
Chapter 10 The leadership myth: managing to succeed
John MacBeath
In conclusion
Maurice Galton, John MacBeath and John Bangs
Bibliography
Biography
John MacBeath is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Maurice Galton is a former Dean of Leicester University and Associate Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.
John Bangs is Senior Consultant at Education International and Chair of the OECD Trade Union Advisory Committee’s Working Group on Education and Skills.
"They compare and discuss key ingredients that contribute to the success or failure of different national school systems around the world. They also acknowledge the negative effects from drastic budgetary cuts on England's education system and offer recommendations for repairing it. The authors assert that broken education systems can be revitalized, and their key recommendation is encouraging productive dialogue among government, teaching professionals, and key stakeholders in the education community. This book should be read by a wide audience."
--J. C. Agnew-Tally, formerly, Missouri State University, Choice
