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First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

School management and organization.

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The argumentative point of departure of this scholarly book is the common conviction of specialists in the field of education in South Africa that the national education system is not at a satisfactory level - in both the academic and the public discourse. Such allegations are made and, frequently, stronger adjectives than 'non-satisfactory' are used. Results of international test series in which South Africa has participated, such as the 2015 TIMSS tests, confirm the negative verdicts found in the (public and scholarly) discourse. This book aims to argue that although the lack of performance could be attributed to a multiplicity of factors, one factor that can make a difference in the achievement levels obtained by learners in schools is leadership. The book demonstrates that a particular problem of both the scholarly and the public discourse on education in South Africa is an overtone of defeatism or resignation, blaming all ills in the education system and educational institutions on historical legacies and/or contextual factors (such as socio-economic deprivation in the catchment areas of schools) or poor resources and infrastructure. This collected work was inspired by a recently published spate of articles on top-performing schools (including top-performing schools in rural communities), in which it was demonstrated that good leadership can overcome such contextual and other challenges. The book unpacks the issue of leadership in South African schools from a variety of perspectives, thus contributing to the development of the scholarly discourse on Educational Leadership in South Africa. The target audience of the book is scholars of Educational Leadership. The research reported in the chapters draw on a wide range of methodologies, including empirical (survey) research (questionnaires and interviews), critical literature surveys, and the comparative method.

Educational leadership --- School management and organization

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Inklusion ist als Thema aus dem deutschen Bildungssystem nicht mehr wegzudenken und trotzdem stellt sie weiterhin eine Herausforderung auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen dar. Die Qualifizierung der pädagogischen Fachkräfte ist dabei neben der Bereitstellung adäquater Rahmenbedingungen als ein besonders wichtiges Handlungsfeld zu betrachten. Die Bände der Reihe "Qualifizierung für Inklusion" greifen den bestehenden Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbedarf auf und geben einen Überblick über die Ergebnisse der vom BMBF im Rahmen des Programms "Qualifizierung der pädagogischen Fachkräfte für inklusive Bildung" geförderten Forschungsprojekte. Adressiert werden damit sowohl Wissenschaftler:innen als auch mit dem Themenfeld Inklusion befasste Personen und Institutionen der Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung, der Bildungsadministration und der Bildungspolitik. Der dritte Band der Reihe umfasst die Vorstellung der Projekte, die sich dem Bildungsbereich der Sekundarstufe zuordnen lassen, sowie deren Ergebnisse und Materialien. Die Reihe besteht aus drei weiteren Bänden, in denen die Ergebnisse zur Qualifizierung für Inklusion im Elementarbereich (Band 1), in der Grundschule (Band 2) sowie in der Berufsschule, Hochschule und Erwachsenenbildung (Band 4) vorgestellt werden.

Education and state --- Classroom management. --- School discipline --- School management and organization --- Teaching

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RAND is conducting a longitudinal study that evaluates the effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs in reducing summer learning loss, which contributes substantially to the achievement gap between low- and higher-income students. Based on evaluations of programs in six school districts, this second report in a series provides research-based advice for school district leaders as they create and strengthen summer programs.

Education, Urban --- Learning --- School management and organization --- Summer schools --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Education --- Children with social disabilities

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L’autonomie des établissements scolaires est devenue un thème récurrent des débats éducatifs. On lui prête de nombreuses vertus. Il s’agirait tout à la fois de favoriser les initiatives pédagogiques et de rendre les écoles plus agiles et mieux adaptées à leurs contextes locaux. Cette autonomie fait aussi naître bien des craintes, particulièrement quand elle semble synonyme de développement de logiques concurrentielles. En France, les polémiques sur ce thème présentent alternativement l’autonomie comme une arme « contre » les enseignants ou comme un dispositif qui les « libéreraient ». Plutôt que de s’en tenir à des controverses générales, il a été choisi dans cet ouvrage, d’une part, de mobiliser la littérature internationale et des études de situations dans d’autres pays, et d’autre part, d’aborder une expérience précise d’autonomie pédagogique dans un collège français. En confrontant ces analyses et ces témoignages, ce quatrième opus des Entretiens Ferdinand Buisson propose des pistes opérationnelles pour favoriser les interactions entre recherches universitaires et pratiques professionnelles sur cette question sensible. School autonomy has become a recurrent issue in education. It is credited with many virtues. This would involve both promoting educational initiatives and making schools more flexible and better suited to their local contexts. This autonomy also gives rise to many concerns, especially when it appears to be synonymous with the growth of competition. In France, debates on this subject present autonomy either as a weapon “against” teachers or as a means of “freeing” them. Rather than sticking to common controversies, this book not only includes international literature and case studies from other countries, but also showcases a specific example of educational autonomy in a French secondary school. By comparing these reviews and experiences, this book offers some courses of action for promoting interaction between academic research and professional…

School autonomy --- School management and organization --- Educational equalization --- Autonomy, School --- Education and state --- autonomy --- educational leadership --- school --- decentralisation --- educational projects