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Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching: From Political Visions To Classroom Reality,New
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What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policymakers and schools over the life of the New Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to Education, Education, Education as it travelled from political vision to classroom practice? What are the lasting legacies of 13 years of a reforming Labour government? And what are the key messages for a coalition government?These are the questions addressed to the architects of educational reform, their critics and the prophets of better things to come. The 37 interviewees include ministers past and present, journalists, union officials, members of lobby groups and think tanks. Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching considers the impact of educational policies on those who have to translate political priorities into the day to day work of schools and classrooms. The authors argue that an evidenceinformed view of policymaking has yet to be realised, graphically illustrating how many recent political decisions in education can be explained by the personal experiences, predilections and shortterm needs of key decisionmakers.The interviews, which explore the dynamics behind the creation of education policies, cover a wide range of themes and issues, including:policymakers' attitudes to schools, the staff who work in them and the communities they servethe drivers of politicians' reform agendas and the constraints on radical reformthe shaping and reshaping of curriculum and assessmentthe search for a more effective marriage between inspection and school self evaluationthe relationship of academic research to policy makinghow a vision for teaching and teachers might be constructed for the 21st centuryContributions from leading figures including; David Puttnam, Kenneth Baker, Estelle Morris, Gillian Shepherd, Jim Knight, Pauline Perry, Michael Barber, Peter Mortimore, Judy Sebba, Paul Black, Mary James, Kevan Collins, David Hargreaves, Mike Tomlinson, David Berliner, Andreas Schleicher, Tim Brighouse, Conor Ryan, Keith Bartley, Michael Gove and Philippa Cordingley are woven in with the insights of teachers and headteachers such as Alasdair MacDonald and William Atkinson.The book's findings and proposals will be of interest not only to professional educators and those with an interest in the current and future state of education but to those interested in the process of policymaking itself.
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