Description
This work tackles the issues that staff and management of international schools need to address in order to ensure that their teaching and organization is of a high standard and quality. It contains a wide range of contributions from international school experts around the world.
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors vii
Preface XV
1 Quality in diversity 1
Mary Hayden and JeffThompson
PART A:THROUGHTHE CURRICULUM
2 Assessment and educational quality: implications for
international schools 15
John Lowe
3 Inclusive education in international schools: a case
study from Singapore 29
Gail Bradley
4 Curricular interstices and the Theory of Knowledge 42
John Mackenzie
5 Images of international education in national and
international schools: a view from Jordan 51
Samia AI Farra
6 The politics of international education 62
Peter Zsebik
PART B:THROUGH HUMAN RESOURCES
7 Student mobility and the international curriculum 73
Anne McKillop-Ostrom
8 Recruitment of teachers for international education 85
Brian Garton
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9 Professional development and reflective practice 96
William Powell
10 The role ofwomen in senior management in
international schools 112
Carol Thearle
11 The international school and its community: think
globally, interact locally 124
Keith Allen
PART C:THROUGH SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
12 Moving from school effectiveness to school
improvement in international schools 143
Michael Fertig
13 Long-term planning in international schools 158
Joseph J Blaney
14 Strategic planning for international schools: a
roadmap to excellence 169
Niall Nelson
15 International schools, globalization and the seven
cultures of capitalism 179
james Cambridge
PART D: CONCLUSION
16 International education: connecting the national
to the global 193
George Walker
Index
