Skip to main content

1st Edition

Transforming Education Meanings, myths and complexity

By Agnieszka Bates Copyright 2016

228 Pages

by Routledge

228 Pages

by Routledge

Also available as eBook on:

Taylor & Francis eBooks
(Institutional Purchase)Opens in new tab or window

Description

Transforming Education challenges the current global orthodoxy that ‘educational transformation’ can be achieved through a step-by-step implementation of centralised, performance-based strategies for school improvement. Complex responsive processes theory is utilised in an original way to critique leadership myths and explore the alternative, deeper meanings of educational transformation.... Read more

Table of Contents

Contents

Part I The universe of complexity thinking

1 Educational transformation in the global age

2 (Un)certainty and the myth of control

3 Complex responsive processes theory

4 Researching complexity

Part II 'Global' policies and local interactions

5 The myth of 'spectacular' solutions: the Literacy and Numeracy Strategies
and their (un)desirable consequences

6 Everyday practice and the myth of perpetual crisis

7 Rethinking policy, strategy and educational leadership

Part III Complex responsive processes theory and educational ends

8 'Tremendous power', ethics and responsibility

9 Educational beginnings and ends

Appendix

Index

Author(s)

Biography

Dr Agnieszka Bates lectures in Education at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK.

Add to Cart