School Effectiveness and School-Based Management: A Mechanism for Development, Edition 2
About this ebook
The book includes four parts and 12 chapters covering (1) School Effectiveness (i.e., multiple school functions, models of effectiveness and pursuit of dynamic effectiveness); (2) SBM (i.e., theories of SBM, multi-level self-management (SM), and its implementation); (3) Leadership for Change (i.e., leadership for SBM, staff development, school-based change, and curriculum change); and (4) Future Developments (i.e., an SBM mechanism for effectiveness and paradigm shift towards the third wave).
The framework and related analysis will benefit the understanding, policy formulation, school practice and research of the key stakeholders including policy makers, educators, change agents, researchers and those concerned in facing the challenges from the ongoing education reforms in different parts of the world.
About the author
Yin Cheong Cheng (EdD, Harvard) is emeritus professor of education and senior research fellow of The Education University of Hong Kong. He was president of the World Educational Research Association and the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association. His research interest includes education reforms, leadership development, paradigm shift, and school management. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai, and Persian languages. His latest publication is "Y.C. Cheng (2019). Paradigm shift in education: Towards the third wave of effectiveness, Routledge".
