TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stringer,Patricia
TI  - Capacity Building for School Improvement: a Revisited 
T2  - Contemporary Approaches to Research in Learning Innovations
SN  - 9789462093294
AV  - LB2822.8 
U1  - 371.2/07 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - Brill | Sense
KW  - School improvement programs
KW  - Educational change
N1  - Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Setting the Stage -- School Attribute -- School Attributes -- School Attribute -- School Attribute -- School Practice -- School Practice -- School Practice: Division of Labour -- Theory -- End Piece -- Resource -- References
N2  - At a time when there is a high demand for capacity building in schools, many administrators and practitioners find little if any empirical studies on how this can be achieved in practice. Through the eyes of an experienced researcher, schoolteacher, senior administrator and university lecturer, this book captures how a low decile school in New Zealand successfully built its capacity for improvement. Dr. Patricia Stringer allows the reader, who could be anyone with an interest in education, leadership and school development, to identify contextual problems and difficulties that limit capacity building and suggests pathways to overcome them. This is an easy to read and enjoyable book, but, one that digs deep into practice. The researcher spent over a year working with the staff, board and parents of this school discovering and recording authentic information about this school’s successful journey to success. For the researcher, this was an exciting experience; one that needs to be shared with the wider educational community. A must read book
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-329-4
ER  -