The Pendulum Swings: Transforming School Reform
- ISBN-10
- 1858564689
- ISBN-13
- 9781858564685
- Series
- The Pendulum Swings
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Trentham Books Limited
- Author
- Bernard Barker
Description
Discontent with failed, top-down reform and the immediate prospect of political change have created a rare opportunity to reinvent education policy and to think afresh about how teachers and children should be encouraged to develop their full potential. The Pendulum Swings explores alternative, genuinely transformative conceptions of leadership and learning and shows how they could become the foundation for effectively improving our schools. Since 1988, education reform has been driven by what Bernard Barker shows to be a delusion. The notion that learning can be improved through market place competition, regulation and inspection, quick leadership fixes, and best practice recipes, has proved wholly untrue. New Labour's education policies have become the single biggest obstacle to school improvement. In the year of a general election, the pendulum in education is swinging away from markets and measurement towards a humane and professional approach to schools and learning. This timely book shows that policy makers must change their thinking completely, or schools will be trapped in cycles of perpetual change that lead nowhere. Bernard Barker is Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Management, School of Education, University of Leicester. He headed comprehensive community colleges in Cambridgeshire and Leicester for 19 years and is the author of the acclaimed Transforming Schools - illusion or reality? `This is a book about doing schools differently ... a book of commitment to a better future and a book, ultimately, of hope.' Meg Maguire
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 1998
- 24 pages
- Paperback
- Whitby, Ont. : The Plowman
Similar books
-
As the Pendulum Swings: If It Isn't Hypnosis, Then What Is It?
By Lindsay A. BradyAS THE PENDULUM SWINGS is not only about hypnosis, but also a story about how the author's life was transformed from one of fear, low self-esteem, guilt, and self-doubt into one of confidence, joy, and peace of mind with self-hypnosis.It is ...
-
The Pendulum Swings
By Bob BuessThe Pendulum Swings
-
The Pendulum Swings
By Lysa ShookEmberlin's journey continues. The path to self discovery is never easy.
-
Pendulum Swing
By Larry J. SabatoThis is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
-
The Pendulum Swings
By Ilona Károlyi SzéchényiThe Pendulum Swings
-
As The Pendulum Swings
By Bwaabi Shaawe AmajuwonA shared collective of life experiences relatable to young and senior adults. It chronicles what was felt from adolescence to my current disposition and provides perspective into the views and lines of my heart.
-
Pendulum Swing
By Mary Louise Donovan-UrquhartPendulum Swing