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    Looking Beyond the Numbers: Stakeholders and Multiple School Accountability (2012)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (28 p.) , 21 x 29.7cm.
    Series Statement: OECD Education Working Papers no.85
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: How to hold autonomous schools and school governing boards accountable for their decisions and performance has become a particularly pressing question for central governments in many OECD countries. Increasing complexity in education systems has led to a greater degree of freedom in decision making for many local authorities, school governing boards and schools. However despite this increasing decentralisation, central governments are still held responsible by the general public for ensuring high quality education. During the last ten years, school accountability has become a critical topic, triggered by the results of international benchmarks such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). This paper analyses trends in accountability mechanisms and processes and argues that vertical measures of accountability, that is, regulatory and school performance accountability, can be usefully augmented by horizontal measures involving multiple stakeholders. This system of multiple school accountability aims to efficiently and effectively take into account the nuanced nature and purposes of education. By combining various forms of accountability, it has the potential to enhance the overall education system, policy for reform, and therefore ultimately improve the quality of education.
    DOI: 10.1787/5k91dl7ct6q6-en
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    Exploring the Complex Interaction Between Governance and Knowledge in Education (2012)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 43 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Education Working Papers no.67
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: Governments in all OECD countries are facing the challenge of governing increasingly complex education systems. There is a growing need for governance structures that can handle this complexity and which can provide actors with the knowledge they need to make decisions. This working paper asks the question: How do governance and knowledge mutually constitute and impact on each other in complex education systems? It provides an answer through a state of the art literature review and original theoretical argumentation. It breaks new ground by combining different schools of academic and policy thinking which traditionally look at various aspects of the relationship between governance and knowledge separately. Research in public management, political science and public policy, sociology, institutional economics, and organisational management (particularly the knowledge transfer literature) is augmented with work from education and other social sciences, including healthcare, law, and social justice. This working paper argues that just as knowledge is crucial for governance, governance is indispensible for knowledge creation and dissemination. It proposes an analytical framework that combines models of governance with modes of learning and types of knowledge, and provides preliminary empirical examples to support this framework. In the context of diverse social, economic and political environments of OECD countries, the interaction between these two focal points – models of governance and types of knowledge – has become increasingly relevant to researchers, policy makers, and education stakeholders more generally.
    DOI: 10.1787/5k9flcx2l340-en
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    Shifting Responsibilities - 20 Years of Education Devolution in Sweden : A Governing Complex Education Systems Case Study (2014)
    Paris : OECD Publishing
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (41 p.) , 21 x 29.7cm.
    Series Statement: OECD Education Working Papers no.104
    Keywords: Education ; Sweden
    Abstract: This case study examines the consequences of important education decentralisation reforms that took place in Sweden in the early 1990s. The sudden shift away from a traditionally centralised education system towards a decentralised one meant that municipalities had to quickly accommodate new responsibilities. Difficulties related to this shift were noticed early on and then confirmed by international surveys, in particular PISA, which revealed that student performance was deteriorating while the gap increased between and top- and bottom-performers. Key elements to this include the fact that decentralisation took place without enough support from the central authorities, municipalities (particularly smaller ones) lacked local capacity to manage their new responsibilities, and as a result the reform has resulted in a mismatch between official responsibilities and the actual powers of the various stakeholders. The central government, steering education at arm’s length, has few tools to incentivise compliance with national goals. At the municipal level, financial resources are often allocated based on tradition and local politics rather than actual needs. This is in part due to misuse of available data and of expert knowledge by decision-makers. The case study also provides a series of recommendations for improvement.
    DOI: 10.1787/5jz2jg1rqrd7-en
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    Educating teachers for diversity : meeting the challenge (2010)
    Paris : OECD
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    ISBN: 9789264079731
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 318 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Educational research and innovation
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Educating teachers for diversity
    DDC: 370.117
    RVK:
    DN 7500
    RVK:
    DU 6000
    Keywords: Teachers Training of ; Multicultural education ; Lehrerfortbildung ; Interkulturelles Lernen ; Interkulturelle Erziehung
    Abstract: This publication summarises key research findings which can be used to redesign initial and continuing teacher education to help practitioners effectively teach diverse students. It looks at challenges teachers face in OECD countries and presents a range of policies and practices used in various contexts, from countries with long histories of diversity to those with more recent experiences. The key role of evaluation - of teachers, schools and systems - is emphasised. Educating Teachers for Diversity: Meeting the Challenge asks how these insights can inspire continuing educational reform for o
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Executive summary; Part I - Context, concepts and research; The importance of effective teacher education for diversity; On diversity in educational contexts; The OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and teacher education for diversity; Diversity in education: the importance of disaggregating data; Part II - Preparing teachers for diverse classrooms; Diversity and educational disparities: the role of teacher education; Attracting and retaining diverse student teachers
    Description / Table of Contents: Curriculum planning and development: implications for a new generation of teacher educatorsIntercultural competence teacher-training models: the Italian experience; Part III - Moving into practice; From homogeneity to diversity in German education; Teacher education for diversity in Spain: moving from theory to practice; School leader approaches to multicultural education: a Northern Ireland case study; Classroom practices for teaching diversity: an example from Washington State (United States); Part IV - The pending agenda; Supporting effective practice: the pending agenda
    Description / Table of Contents: Annex A - An international online consultationBiographies of contributing authors
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1787/9789264079731-en
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