The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational …
1. International School Principal Research. Social Democratic Welfare Countries -- 2. Denmark - Danish School leadership between welfare and competition -- 3. Iceland - Research on Principals in Iceland -- 4. Finland - Finnish Principal -- 5. Norway - Researching Norwegian Principals -- 6. Sweden - Swedish School Leadership Research - an Important but Neglected Area -- Former East European Coun…
(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.
Perspectives and Overviews -- Vocationalised Secondary Education Revisited -- Setting the Context: An Overview of Secondary Education Reform with Particular Reference to the Asia-Pacific Region -- Promise and Performance in Vocationalised Secondary Education: Has the Baby Been Thrown Out with the Bath Water? -- Country Case Studies -- Pre-vocational Secondary Education in Botswana -- Vocational…
Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field of Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches -- Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field of Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches -- The Roots -- World War II and Schools -- Finding Keys to School Change: A 40-Year Odyssey -- Listening and Learning from the Field: Tales of Policy Implementation and Situated Pract…
Towards a Theory of School Development -- Developing the Twenty-First Century School: A Challenge to Reformers -- Reconnecting Knowledge Utilization and School Improvement: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back -- The School Effectiveness Knowledge Base as a Guide for School Improvement -- The Contemporary Context of School Improvement -- School Evaluation and Improvement: A Scandinavian View -- Qua…
The Context -- The Development Context: The Call for Reorientation -- The Educational Context: The Call for Reform -- The Great Debate -- The Advocates: Constructing Non-Formal Education -- Ideologues -- Empiricists -- Pragmatists -- The End of the Debate -- Some Issues Arising from the Literature -- Case Studies -- NFE Today: The Trajectory of Meanings -- Towards A New Logic Frame -- Re-Concep…
New Paradigm for Education Reform -- New Paradigm for Education Reforms: Globalization, Localization, and Individualization -- Three Waves of Education Reform: Internal, Interface, and Future -- Fostering Local Knowledge and Human Development in Globalization of Education -- A Theory of Self-learning in a Networked Human and IT Environment -- Economic Considerations in Education Reforms and Pol…
One -- Globalization and Educational Change: New Policy Worlds -- Marketization in Education: Looking Back to Move Forward with a Stronger Critique -- Multicultural Education in the United States and Canada: The Importance of National Policies -- International Comparative Studies of Education and Large-Scale Change -- A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities -- The Implications of Polic…
A Serendipitous Search for a Career in Higher Education -- Professors as Knowledge Workers in the New, Global Economy -- Contrasting Perspectives on Higher Education Governance in the Arab States -- Are Students Really Rational? The Development of Rational Thought and its Application to Student Choice -- Investments in Human Capital: Sources of Variation in the Return to College Quality -- The …