Developmental Planning for School Improvement

by David Hopkins

• ISBN13: 9780304331031
• ISBN10: 0304331031
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Summary

Development planning is a relatively new concept in a changing educational vocabulary. Different terms are now being used both within and between countries, and the same term does not always have a shared meaning. There is, however, something of a common core in both the origin and definition of the concept, whatever particular name is used. Development planning is a response to the need for a systematic and whole-school approach to planning and the management of multiple innovations and change.
Although development planning is now a widespread innovation, its success or effectiveness in terms of school improvement is by no means established. The relative youth of development planning as a school improvement strategy, and the fact the research is set within specific national or local contexts, means that far less is known than anyone cares to admit.
The twelve chapters representing experience from six English-speaking countries that comprise this volume attempt to remedy that situation. Together with the editorial introduction they seek to pick out recurring themes as well as those very distinctive features that may be important in an emergent field of study.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
School Development Planning: An International Perspective	p. 25
Creating Effective Schools through Site-Level Staff Development, Planning and Improvement of Organizational Culture	p. 37
The Contribution of Quality Assurance Reviews to Development in School Systems	p. 49
The Centrality of the Autonomy - Accountability Dilemma in School and Professional Development	p. 69
Written Planning and School Development: Biding Time or Making Time	p. 80
Three Arenas of Tension: Teachers' Experience of Participation in School Development Planning	p. 91
Observing Primary School Change: Through Conflict to Whole-School Collaboration?	p. 100
School Development Planning: A Place for Partnership?	p. 116
School Effectiveness and School Improvement: A Meeting of Two Minds	p. 129
Creating Their Own Futures: The Use and Effectiveness of School Development Plans in Australian Schools	p. 141
Towards a Contingency Approach to Development Planning in Schools	p. 150
School Development Planning in Primary Schools: Does It Make a Difference?	p. 162
Name Index	p. 173
Subject Index	p. 175
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