Inspiring teachers, changing lives. Successful teachers teach and good leaders lead for the love of it. Despite difficulties, most of our schools are havens of joy and good learning. This book brings together a range of perspectives from influential school leaders and others immersed in education about what's important for children, for schools and us all - and why school leadership is fascinating and exciting as well as challenging.
Well Educated demonstrates a range of independent and lively thinking from engaging education leaders and thinkers. Contributors share their principles and experiences in providing a vision for schools to develop all young people intellectually, practically and socially. The chapters cover:
- The purpose of education
- What makes a quality curriculum
- The role of examinations and assessment
- Meeting the needs of your community
With case studies and reflective questions, this will be valuable reading for all school leaders and policy-makers who want to think beyond the reductive definitions of inspection judgements to develop schools rooted in an uplifting ethos and a love of learning.
Successful teachers teach and good leaders lead for the love of it. Despite difficulties, most schools are havens of joy and good learning. This book brings together a range of perspectives from influential school leaders about what’s important for children, schools and us all - and why school leadership is fascinating and exciting.
Part 1: What is a good education?
1. The functionalist view of
education.
2. Education as self-realisation.
3. Are all good schools alike?
4. Should schools serve individuals or communities?
5. Who decides what a
good education is? Part 2: A good curriculum
6. The best thats been thought
and said: the knowledge-rich school.
7. Education for creativity.
8.
Building up educated citizens.
9. Is a good school conceivable without great
subject teaching?
10. Local curriculum development.
11. Education as
transmitting knowledge, values and cultural identity.
12. Rendering tensions
productive: Finding joy and seeking wisdom in the intellectual enterprise of
the curriculum.
13. What is a quality curriculum? Part 3: Is assessment fit
for purpose?
14. Assessment and childrens experience of learning.
15. The
role of public examination and qualifications.
16. The school leader as
emancipator.
17. Understanding, embedding and assessing complex competences
such as creative thinking, collaboration and communication.
18. How do we
know someone is well educated? Part 4: Who benefits from education?
19.
Creating joy. What does educational success look like?
20. Who are schools
failing?
21. Education for families who dont see the point.
22. What is
fairness in education?
23. The broader societal benefits of education
24. Is
it possible to be overeducated? Part 5: What is an educated society?
25.
Education as a means to foster a nation with a shared culture, tradition and
values.
26. Is there an education utopia?
27. A vision for a better world?
28. A community of individual talents
29. Does society still value teachers?
Afterword Index
Carolyn Roberts MBE is an experienced headteacher, published education thinker and writer, a founding fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and Co-Director of The Professional Teaching Institute (The PTI).
Hugh Rayment-Pickard MBE is Co-Director of The PTI and was formerly Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of education charity IntoUniversity
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