Consorting And Collaborating In The Education Market Place [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910348238403321
• Autore: Husbands Chris
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1995
• ISBN: 1-135-79235-6; 1-280-14936-1; 0-203-97396-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Collana: Education policy perspectives series Consorting and collaborating in the education market place
• Altri autori (Persone): BridgesDavid
• Disciplina: 371.2; 378.1/04/0941
• Soggetti: Finance; Universities and colleges; University cooperation; University cooperation - Finance - Great Britain; Universities and colleges - Great Britain; Education; Social Sciences; Theory & Practice of Education; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 The Education Market Place and the Collaborative Response: An Introduction; Chapter 2 Schools, Markets and Collaboration: New Models for Educational Polity?; Chapter 3 Collaboration: A Condition of Survival for Small Rural Schools?; Chapter 4 Collaboration, Competition and Cross-phase Liaison: The North Lowestoft Schools Network; Chapter 5 The Rationale and Experience of a 'Schools Association': The Ivel Schools' Association; Chapter 6 Education 2000: Collaboration and Cooperation as a Model of Change Management; Chapter 7 A Consortium Approach to Staff DevelopmentChapter 8 ; Collaboration and Competition in Education: Marriage not Divorce; Chapter 9 Collaboration for School Improvement: The Power of Partnership; Chapter 10 Consortium Collaboration The Experience of TVEI; Chapter 11 Consortium Collaboration in Teacher Education: The ERTEC Experience; Chapter 12 Collaboration through Networking: The Collaborative Action Research Network; Chapter 13 Beyond Collaboration: On the Importance of Community; Chapter 14 Theories of Association: The Social Psychology of Working Together in Educational Consortia; Notes on ContributorsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: This text offers descriptions and analyses of some of the different ways in which schools and other educational institutions have started to establish new collaborative relationships in today's competitive educational marketplace. Using case studies, the book describes examples of such collaborative structures.; Educational consortia have been established as a vehicle for professional and curriculum development, as a source of mutual support and as a condition of mutual survival. As the ""LEA monopolies"" have been forced to shed many of their traditional functions or schools have opted out, s