Table of contents - Special Issue: Building organisational capacity in school education
Guest Editors: Stephen Dinham, Frank Crowther
Sustainable school capacity building – one step back, two steps forward?
Stephen Dinham, Frank CrowtherThis paper aims to serve as an introduction to and overview of this special issue of the Journal of Educational Administration entitled “Building organisational capacity in school…
System improvement through collective capacity building
Alma HarrisThe purpose of this paper is to outline how collective capacity building is supporting system‐wide reform in one country. It seeks to outline the way in which professional…
System alignment as a key strategy in building capacity for school transformation
Jim Watterston, Brian CaldwellThe purpose of this paper is to review strategies to build capacity for school improvement in Australia. The focus is on public schools and strategies adopted for the system as a…
The capacity to build organizational capacity in schools
M. Bruce King, Kate BouchardReformers, policymakers, and researchers have given considerable attention to organizational capacity in schools, especially in those schools that perpetuate or exacerbate…
Pipelines, pools and reservoirs: building leadership capacity for sustained improvement
Dean FinkA crucial aspect of a school's capacity to promote and sustain change and improvement in student learning is the depth, breadth and endurance of both its formal and informal…
System redesign for system capacity building
David H. HargreavesA recent development in England is the emergence, under various names, of groups of schools working together in a variety of collaborative ways. Such diversification enjoys broad…
Self‐organisation and capacity building: sustaining the change
Alan Bain, Allan Walker, Anissa ChanThe paper aims to describe the application of theoretical principles derived from a study of self‐organisation and complex systems theory and their application to school‐based…
Building capacity in a self‐managing schooling system: the New Zealand experience
Viviane M.J. Robinson, Stuart McNaughton, Helen TimperleyThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate two recent examples of the New Zealand Ministry of Education's approach to reducing the persistent disparities in achievement between…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Professor Chen Schechter
- Professor Jayson W. Richardson