1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450724803321

Autore

Shuttleworth Dale E (Dale Edwin), <1938->

Titolo

School management in transition [[electronic resource] ] : schooling on the edge / / Dale E. Shuttleworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003

ISBN

0-203-42633-9

1-280-02428-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Student outcomes and the reform of education

Disciplina

371.2

Soggetti

School management and organization - Political aspects

Education and state

Conservatism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; School Management in Transition; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Crisis in the classroom; 2 Leadership in transition; 3 Loosening the ties; 4 Test-score Olympics; 5 Top-down reform; 6 Outsourcing the service; 7 Bottom-up renewal; 8 Community education partnerships; 9 Micropolitics of governance; 10 Zero tolerance; 11 Digital divide; 12 Learning to manage knowledge; 13 Tracking innovation; 14 Management for a learning society; 15 Leaders for the twenty-first century; Appendix: National profiles; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

School Management in Transition examines the impact of the neo-conservative political agendas which still hold sway in education. It describes the transition that has occurred in the school leader's role from teacher-administrator to quality control supervisor and how some schools have developed strategies to deal with the resulting issues.Based on a study carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the book analyzes issues such as decentralization, testing, external assessment and privatization in the education systems of nine of the world's m



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300541703321

Autore

Kragh Helge

Titolo

From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements : A Story of Dispute and Creation / / by Helge Kragh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-75813-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (106 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology, , 2211-4564

Disciplina

546.44

Soggetti

Physics

Chemistry—History

Nuclear physics

Heavy ions

Nuclear chemistry

History

Philosophy and science

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

History of Chemistry

Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons

Nuclear Chemistry

History of Science

Philosophy of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The story of superheavy elements - those at the very end of the periodic table - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians, philosophers, and sociologists of science and indeed to the general public. This is what the present work aims at. It tells the story or rather parts of the story, of how physicists and chemists created elements heavier than uranium or



searched for them in nature. And it does so with an emphasis on the frequent discovery and naming disputes concerning the synthesis of very heavy elements. Moreover, it calls attention to the criteria which scientists have adopted for what it means to have discovered a new element. In this branch of modern science it may be more appropriate to speak of creation instead of discovery. The work will be of interest to scientists as well as to scholars studying modern science from a meta-perspective.