ABSTRACT

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.John MacBeath has spent

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Introduction: a life in education

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Bridges across boundaries

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Improving school effectiveness

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Schools on the edge

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The way it spozed to be?

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Why learn maths?

chapter 1|3 pages

Refl ection’s leading light

chapter 2|11 pages

Developing skills for life after school

chapter 6|2 pages

Inspectors worthy of Kafka

chapter 8|22 pages

The talent enigma

chapter 9|2 pages

School leadership crisis

chapter 11|25 pages

Leadership as a subversive activity

chapter 12|2 pages

Shame tactics ‘don’t work’

chapter 16|2 pages

Chief inspector targets professors

chapter 17|11 pages

Do schools have a future?

chapter 19|7 pages

Three thinkpieces