Book contents
- Implementing Educational Reform
- Implementing Educational Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Why Focus on Implementation in Education Reform?
- 2 Promoting Equity in Education through System Change
- 3 A Decade of Reform in Hong Kong
- 4 Reforming a Whole School System
- 5 The Challenges and Opportunities of Greater Autonomy for Post-Soviet Universities
- 6 School Improvement by Design
- 7 Promising Practice in Government Schools in Vietnam
- 8 Reform Implementation Lessons
- 9 Qatar’s Road to Education Reform
- 10 Implementing Educational Reform
- Index
- References
1 - Why Focus on Implementation in Education Reform?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2021
Book contents
- Implementing Educational Reform
- Implementing Educational Reform
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Why Focus on Implementation in Education Reform?
- 2 Promoting Equity in Education through System Change
- 3 A Decade of Reform in Hong Kong
- 4 Reforming a Whole School System
- 5 The Challenges and Opportunities of Greater Autonomy for Post-Soviet Universities
- 6 School Improvement by Design
- 7 Promising Practice in Government Schools in Vietnam
- 8 Reform Implementation Lessons
- 9 Qatar’s Road to Education Reform
- 10 Implementing Educational Reform
- Index
- References
Summary
There is constant pressure on governments and policymakers globally to raise the standard of education and to develop the appropriate curriculum and pedagogies to enable students to fit the world they will enter post-school; there are also international comparisons. There is a body of scholarship in the leadership field on change and reform, largely focused on the processes and ways of working. The policy and academic world have also focused on these matters, largely in the form of theoretical discussions or critical debates about issues of transnational work, school effectiveness or school improvement. There has been less focus on the implementation of reform or change. This chapter synthesises the literature on implementation in the fields of public policy and education and reviews existing thinking and scholarship on reform and implementation. The authors identify the common understandings, different approaches and gaps in the field, thus providing a rationale for the book and for the choice of case studies.
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- Implementing Educational ReformCases and Challenges, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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