This book examines the changes, and reasons for the changes, in ways in which schools have been judged to be 'good' or 'effective'. A major focus is the development from the 1970s of a research-based movement in Britain, the United States and elsewhere that has explored school effectiveness and improvement. The author traces the development of the American and British research, and the ways in which it affected American school policy and practice - and failed to do so in competition with national policies that aimed at a national curriculum, assessment and related changes.In order to consider the nature of this effective schools research and movement, the book sets them against a background of nineteenth- and twentieth-century judgements of what, in Britain, has constituted a good school. It traces the power of inspectors, examinations, governments, managers and others to make judgements and to define the criteria for making judgements, and ways in which research also became influential. This book is therefore an important piece of recent history, using mainly Britain and the United States to explain and illustrate the changes, and focusing on concepts of central importance in current schools policy and practice internationally.

Good Schools, Effective Schools: Judgements and Their Histories (School Development Series)

Education & Teaching

Silver, Harold

Schools & Teaching

Continuum Intl Pub Group

What constitutes a "good" and an "effective" school? How have judgements of school effectiveness changed, and why? This book examines these questions, focusing on the development from a research-based movement in Britain, the USA and elsewhere in the 1970s. The author sets this development against a background of 19th- and 20th-century factors affecting judgements of what has constituted a "good" school in the UK. He traces the power of inspectors, exams, governments, managers and others to make judgements and to define the criteria for these judgements. He also looks at how research became influential. The book looks at issues of central importance in current schools policy and practice internationally.

Good Schools, Effective Schools: Judgements and Their Histories (School Development)

Students: Changing Roles, Changing Lives

What it means to be a student has changed. It has always meant more than the formal academic role, and this text is concerned with the changes in students lives, activities and attitudes since the period of student activism in the 1960s and 1970s.

Silver, Pamela

Open Univ Pr

Looks at changes not just in the academic role of British college students, but in their lives, activities, and attitudes since the activism of the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on interviews with students and staff, discusses such matters as residence, student unions, clubs and societies, the lives of different constituencies of students, representation, leisure, hardship, and part-time employment. Also draws comparisons with students in the US. Distributed by Taylor &amp; Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Innovation in Higher Education: Teaching, Learning and Institutional Cultures

Innovations in teaching and learning methods in higher education are being introduced at a time of rapid institutional change. Traditional lectures are being replaced by more student-centered and project-based methods, often involving the use of information and communication technology. Innovating in Higher Education is based on in-depth qualitative research in fifteen UK universities, and tells the stories of those who have been involved in such changes. It will be of interest to policy-makers, managers and university teachers who wish to bring about innovation in teaching and learning in higher education

INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Teaching, Learning and Institutional Cultures

Hannan, Andrew

Higher & Continuing Education

Innovations in teaching and learning methods in higher education are being introduced at a time of rapid institutional change. Traditional lectures are being replaced by more student-centred and project-based methods, often involving the use of information and communication technology. This text is based on in-depth qualitative research in 15 UK universities, and tells the stories of those who have been involved in such changes.

A Social History of Education in England

Originally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different parts played by church and state, and the influence of new social and educational philosophies.

LAWSON, John

Reference

Routledge

Originally published 1983.This book explores the nature of the social history of education. It examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why.   The themes explored include the relationship between education and the emergence of social science, the reputations of educationists, expectations of higher education in the twentieth century, the use of education against poverty and education as policy and case study.

Education as History: Interpreting nineteenth- and twentieth-century education

Originally published 1974. Thousands of elementary schools for the children of the poor were founded during the nineteenth century, yet there is scarcely a published history of a single one of them. This volume is precisely such a history and the authors trace its story against the background of local and national change in education and society.   On the basis of a unique collection of records the authors have pieced together a picture of the social composition of the school, its curriculum and teaching methods, and its administration and finance. They relate the history of the school to that of London and the church, to that of educational authorities and educational policy.

The Education of the Poor: The History of the National School 1824-1974

Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range of educational themes including aspects of schooling and higher education, education as social policy, knowledge as power, and teaching and adolescence. He draws on the social history of many of the processes, concepts and debates. Parts of the book derive from research into the history and contemporary forms of these problems in the USA. The volume therefore illuminates important contemporary issues in education and society by using historical, sociological and comparative insights.     

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Good Schools, Effective Schools: Judgements and Their Histories (School Development Series)

Good Schools, Effective Schools: Judgements and Their Histories (School Development)

Students: Changing Roles, Changing Lives

Students: Changing Roles, Changing Lives

INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Teaching, Learning and Institutional Cultures

Innovation in Higher Education: Teaching, Learning and Institutional Cultures

A Social History of Education in England

Education as History: Interpreting nineteenth- and twentieth-century education

The Education of the Poor: The History of the National School 1824-1974

Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)