School Improvement: An Unofficial Approach
By (Author) Martin Thrupp
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
19th January 2006
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Educational administration and organization
371.2
Paperback
160
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
250g
Martin Thrupp argues that there has to be a much bigger educational and social justice agenda to school improvement than the managerial approaches typically taken by government policy. He critiques those school improvement texts, courses and consultancies which mostly frame their analyses within the terms of current policy and therefore act to apologise for it. An alternative, more critical approach to school improvement is developed in the book and the author also provides examples of practical strategies to be employed within this approach.
Martin Thrupp is Reader in Education at King's College London. Previously he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, NZ.