Sustaining the Comprehensive Ideal: The Robert Clack School

by Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou

Overview

This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty. Based on extensive interview data from 2012-2016, the authors demonstrate that the fundamental ethos underpinning the school’s improvement is a desire to meet the needs of young people in disadvantaged communities in order to equip them with the skills to allow them to transcend their situation. The authors posit that this school embodies the ‘comprehensive ideal’ of secondary education in England: that education should not be disadvantaged by background, and that the state should provide free and high quality education for all. This book will appeal to students and scholars of comprehensive education and schools in difficult contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030341558
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/14/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	95
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Trevor Male is Associate Professor at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at UCL Institute of Education, UK.

Ioanna Palaiologou is Research Associate at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at UCL, Institute of Education, UK.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The improvement process.- Chapter 3. Being part of the school community.- Chapter 4. Leadership - theory and practice.- Chapter 5. A shock to the system.- Chapter 6. The end of an era.