Improving Quality in Education / Edition 1

by Dr Colin C Bayne-Jardine, Charles Hoy, Dr Margaret Wood

Overview

*Explores the best acknowledged ways to maintain and improve school education in the UK
*Highlights ways for achieving required standards (such as DfEE standards)
*Explores the need to find the right balance between external inspection and internal self-examination as methods for identifying sustainable improvements in schools.
While predominantly directed at quality in schools, the book looks outward to quality assurance routes used in FE/HE colleges. It provides a practical opportunity for assessing the effectiveness of methods of quality measurement and shows that inspection is a necessary, but not solely sufficient, condition to develop quality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750709415
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/1999
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Colin Bayne-Jardine, Charles Hoy, Dr Margaret Wood

Table of Contents

Introduction, Maurice Holt; Chapter 1 The Quality Business; Chapter 2 Inspecting It in is Out; Chapter 3 Quality Enhancement Through Development Review; Chapter 4 Development From Within; Chapter 5 Validated Self-Review; Chapter 6 Improving Quality Through a Productive Partnership; Chapter 7 Using Problem Solving for Quality Development; Chapter 8 Quality: the Search for the Holy Grail of Organizational Development;

Editorial Reviews

'This book is a useful addition to the body of literature that informs teachers and policy makers in the ever increasing, but so often misunderstood area of quality in education.' - M. Waring, British Journal of Educational Studies

'What Hoy et al. do is make a convincing case that issues around change and development in education are complex and highly political. Furthermore, the drive to control human relations through the mistrust of teachers is detrimental to pupil learning, and so what is important about this book is not only the critique of officially approved systems but also the presentation of an alternative approach.' - Helen Gunter, Educational Review

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