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Developing Equitable Education Systems (Hardcover)
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Developing Equitable Education Systems (Hardcover)
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Despite consistent improvements in the school systems of over
recent years, there are still too many children who miss out. It is
not only children from disadvantaged backgrounds attending
hard-pressed urban schools that the system is failing - even in the
most successful schools there are often groups of learners whose
experience of schooling is less than equitable. As a result of
their close involvement with a group of schools serving a
predominantly working-class community over five years, the authors
of this book offer an analysis of how marginalisation within
schools can arise, and provide suggestions for responding to this
crucial policy agenda. They propose a teacher-led inquiry strategy
that has proved to be effective in moving forward thinking and
practice within individual schools. However, their research has
shown that using the same strategy for system change is problematic
within a policy context that emphasises competition and choice.
Learning from this experience, the authors analyse the factors that
inhibit the collaborative approach needed to reduce inequities that
exist between the schools, in order to formulate proposals that can
move the system as a whole towards more equitable provision. In
Developing Equitable Education Systems, the authors focus on the
way teachers' sense of 'fairness' can become a powerful starting
point, helping individual schools to inquire into and develop their
own practice and provision. They provide practical suggestions for
practitioners about ways of working that can create a greater sense
of equity within particular school contexts, and highlight the
barriers to a wider strategy for reducing system inequities that
reside in local and national policies and traditions. At a time
when government policies in many countries move to extend the
diversity of educational provision - for example, through the
introduction of charter schools in the USA, free schools in Sweden
and academies in England - the authors also include a set of
recommendations that offer a timely warning against the
fragmentation of school systems in the misguided belief that
competition benefits all children. They suggest that a more
sensible approach would be to avoid situations whereby the
improvement of one school leads to a decline in the resources
available to, and subsequently the performance of, others.
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