Transforming education: meanings, myths and complexity

Bates, A (2015) Transforming education: meanings, myths and complexity. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781138920132

Abstract

This book challenges the current global orthodoxy that ‘educational transformation’ can be achieved through a step-by-step implementation of centralised, performance-based strategies for school improvement. Complex responsive processes theory is utilised in an original way to critique leadership myths and explore the alternative, deeper meanings of educational transformation. The theory opens up new forms of understanding about how ordinary practitioners negotiate the meanings of ‘improvement’ in their everyday practice. It is in the gap between the emergence of these local interactions and the predetermined designs of policy-makers that educational transformation can be lost or found.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	School of Education
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2021 18:27
Last Modified:	15 Aug 2021 09:56
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/14233

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