Consorting and collaborating in the education market place /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by David Bridges and Chris Husbands.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Washington, D.C. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Falmer Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1996.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (vi, 186 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Education policy perspectives series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 The Education Market Place and the Collaborative Response: An Introduction ; References; Chapter 2 Schools, Markets and Collaboration: New Models for Educational Polity? ; Introduction; Educational Structures and Educational Change: The Dynamics of the Market; Shifting Structures: LEAs, Schools and the Market Place; Models of Collaboration: Purchasing, Professionalism and Partnership; New Models for Local Governance?; References; Chapter 3 Collaboration: A Condition of Survival for Small Rural Schools?
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A Question of LeadershipA More Profound Crisis; Third Person Grammar; A Reductive Rational Temper; A Culture of 'Exit'; Cambridgeshire and the Self-managing School; Self-management Does not Interrogate the Political Context; A Question of High Moral Ground; A Potential Divorce; First Person Grammar; References; Chapter 9 Collaboration for School Improvement: The Power of Partnership ; Introduction; Origins of the Two Towns Project; Outcomes of the Project in the Schools; Case Study: Brownhills High School: An Improving School; Evaluation of the Two Towns Project.
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Chapter 6 Education 2000: Collaboration and Cooperation as a Model of Change Management Introduction; The Educative Community; Information Technology; Curriculum Development; Needs of the Young People; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 7 A Consortium Approach to Staff Development ; Introduction; The Context; Schools and the LEA; Power Structures and Staff Development Before the Training Agency; The Establishment of the Training Agency; The Training Agency: Power, Progress and Success?; References; Chapter 8 Collaboration and Competition in Education: Marriage not Divorce.
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Clustering: At Best an Incomplete Alternative?Cluster Development; Cluster Levels and the Implementation of the National Curriculum; Cluster Level I: Pre-clustered Schools; Cluster Level II: Initiation; Cluster Level III: Consolidation; Cluster Level IV: Re-orientation; Factors which Affect Collaboration; Collaboration: A Condition of Survival?; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 4 Collaboration, Competition and Cross-phase Liaison: The North Lowestoft Schools Network ; The Context; Factors in Establishing the Collaborative Climate.
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The Middle- and High-school Initiative: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?The Development of Management and Support Structures; Network Management Structure; The Role of the Governors; The Network in Practice: SCaB: Primary School Liaison; The Network in Practice: Science Liaison: Key Stage 3; Marketing the North Lowestoft Network; The New Middle School: A Test of Collaboration; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 The Rationale and Experience of a 'Schools Association': The Ivel Schools' Association ; The Favourable Background; Motives: Why Collaborate?; Tensions; The Vision.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This text offers descriptions and analyses of some of the different ways in which schools and other educational institutions have started to establish new collaborative relationships in today's competitive educational marketplace. Using case studies, the book describes examples of such collaborative structures.; Educational consortia have been established as a vehicle for professional and curriculum development, as a source of mutual support and as a condition of mutual survival. As the ""LEA monopolies"" have been forced to shed many of their traditional functions or schools have opted out, s.
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Consorting and collaborating in the education market place.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Universities and colleges-- Great Britain-- Finance.