Full Description
Education Game Changers is written for an international readership. This book refers to all education levels and sectors and builds on research in educational leadership, education business, and organizational change. Karen E. Starr describes policy paradoxes challenging the sustainability of educational provision as we know it and the imperatives they present for educational leadership, business, and governance. This book critiques the paradoxical education policy context while exploring alternative futures they may spawn. It ponders both possibilities and pitfalls that cannot be ignored by instrumental players such as governments, policy-makers, educational leaders and business managers, researchers, and analysts. This book unveils rising cases of education business failures around the world, the paucity of governance and business skill on educational boards, and the irrational contradictions faced by governments in determining education policy.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1Change, challenge and paradox
Chapter 2Economic constraint versus social imperative
Chapter 3Equity versus excellence
Chapter 4Efficiency versus productivity
Chapter 5Autonomy versus control
Chapter 6Individual differentiation versus standardization
Chapter 7'New world' versus 'Old World' thinking
Chapter 8Sustainability versus growth
Chapter 9 'Work-life' balance versus work intensification
Chapter 10 The genie is out of the bottle: Game-changing paradox, dissonance and dissent
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