Sustaining the comprehensive ideal : the Robert Clack School /

Sustaining the comprehensive ideal : the Robert Clack School /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Male, Trevor. author.
Imprint:	Cham : Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 95 pages. 2 illustrations, 1 illustrations in color.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Educational equalization -- Great Britain. Children with social disabilities -- Education -- Great Britain. Education and state -- Great Britain. Educational change -- Great Britain. Children with social disabilities -- Education. Education and state. Educational change. Educational equalization. Great Britain.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11997688

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Other authors / contributors:	Palaiologou, Ioanna. author.
ISBN:	9783030341565 3030341569 9783030341558
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2019).
Summary:	This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty. Based on extensive interview data from 2012-2016, the authors demonstrate that the fundamental ethos underpinning the school?s improvement is a desire to meet the needs of young people in disadvantaged communities in order to equip them with the skills to allow them to transcend their situation. The authors posit that this school embodies the ?comprehensive ideal? of secondary education in England: that education should not be disadvantaged by background, and that the state should provide free and high quality education for all. This book will appeal to students and scholars of comprehensive education and schools in difficult contexts. .
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-030-34156-5

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The improvement process
Chapter 3. Being part of the school community
Chapter 4. Leadership - theory and practice
Chapter 5. A shock to the system
Chapter 6. The end of an era.