Radical Reforms Perspectives On An Era Of Educational Change 1st Edition Christopher Chapman by Christopher Chapman, Helen Gunter 9780415464017, 9780203884119, 9780415464024, 0415464013, 0203884116, 0415464021 instant download after payment.

Focusing on education as a major area of public policy in England, this book explores a decade of rapid and intensive modernisation and draws out the lessons for those concerned with developing education systems across the globe. A decade of new labour reform of education -- Labouring to lead -- Accountability for improvement: rhetoric or reality? -- Control and response in primary school teacher's work -- Raising standards: what is the evidence? -- School leaders: meeting the challenges of change -- Remodelling and distributed leadership : the case of the school business manager -- Initial teachers education: a(nother) decade of radical reform -- New provision of schooling -- Networking a more equitable educational future? Rhetorics and realities -- Personalized learning -- "Swing, swing together": multi-agency work in the new children's services -- New labour and breaking the education and poverty link: a conceptual account of its educational policies -- Using research to foster inclusion and equity within the context of new labour education reforms -- Debating new labour education policy -- Reflections on reform: perspectives and challenges