The Practice and Theory of School Improvement by David Hopkins

The Practice and Theory of School Improvement by David Hopkins

ANDY HARGREAVES Department of Teacher Education, Curriculum and Instruction Lynch School of Education, Boston College, MA, U.S.A. ANN LIEBERMAN Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, CA, U.S.A. MICHAEL FULLAN Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID HOPKINS Department for Education and Skills, London, U.K. This set of four volumes on Educational Change brings together evidence and insights on educational change issues from leading writers and researchers in the field from across the world. Many of these writers, whose chapters have been specially written for these books, have been investigating, helping initiate and implementing educational change, for most or all of their lengthy careers. Others are working on the cutting edge of theory and practice in educational change, taking the field in new or even more challenging directions. And some are more skeptical about the literature of educational change and the assumptions on which it rests. They help us to approach projects of understanding or initiating educational change more deeply, reflectively and realistically. Educational change and reform have rarely had so much prominence within public policy, in so many different places. Educational change is ubiquitous. It figures large in Presidential and Prime Ministerial speeches. It is at or near the top of many National policy agendas. Everywhere, educational change is not only a policy priority but also major public news. Yet action to bring about educational change usually exceeds people's understanding of how to do so effectively.

At the Institute of Education, University of London, David Hopkins is the inaugural iNET HSBC Chair in International Leadership. He worked as the Chief Advisor on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills for three Secretary of States between 2002 and 2005. He was previously the Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the University of Nottingham's College of Education. David is also an International Mountain Guide who climbs in the Alps and Himalayas on a regular basis. In School Improvement for Real (2001) and A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research (3/e, 2002), both published by Open University Press, he articulated his ideas on teaching quality, school improvement, and large-scale change.

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Title	The Practice and Theory of School Improvement
Author	David Hopkins
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Year published	2005-10-14
Number of pages	312
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