Description
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.John MacBeath has spent
Table of Contents
Introduction ALife in education 1. Reflections Leading Lights 2. Developing Skills for Life after School 3. Schools on the Edge: responding to challenging circumstances 4. New Relationships for Old: inspection and self evaluation in England and Hong Kong 5. Revived by Post Mortems 6. Inspectors Worthy of Kafka 7. Should we Sugar Coat the Pill, Miss? 8. The Talent Enigma 9. School Leadership Crisis 10. 'Vacancy. Headteacher required 7/24/365…' 11. Leadership as a Subversive Activity 12. Shame Tactics Don’t Work 13. Stories of Compliance and Subversion in a Prescriptive Policy Environment 14. Magic Moments have Disappeared, Experts Believe 15. Mathematics for all: the way it spozed to be? 16. Chief Inspector Targets Professors 17. Do Schools have a Future? 18. Hell Bent on Reform, but who Cared about Teacher Morale? 19. Three Thinkpieces



