School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
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School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
ÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsor School Improvement in a Global Learning Society International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Fort Lauderdale Florida 4th January 2006CorrespondenceProfessor Pam Sammons PhDTeacher and Leadership Research CentreSchool of EducationUniversity of NottinghamJubilee CampusWollaton R School Effectiveness and Equity Making ConnectionsoadNottinghamNG8 IBB UK email pam.sammonsignottinflhani.ac.ukIntroductionOver the last decade globalisation has been recognised, with environmental chSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
ange and population growth as one of the major drivers of social and cultural change. The growth of the internet has dramatically affected the communiÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsbilising impact of poverty and environmental degradation is leading to a greater focus on promoting equity as a policy goal for many governments and trans-national organisations (UN, OECD, World Bank etc).Education is both affected by and influences the process of globalisation in different ways in School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsdifferent contexts. In many societies the prime concern is to increase access to education and IT, to achieve the goal of universal primary educationSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
for all children and, in particular, improve the education prospects of girls, given the high proportion of older women who are illiterate. The currenÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections5% of women and 30% of older men will remain illiterate1 The education of girls in particular is seen to promote health goals for children, reduce population growth and economic prosperity. In other contexts the concern is to raise quality and standards, increase participation rates in higher educat School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsion and promote life long learning.Raising standards of achievement is seen as fundamental to economic performance and the promotion of democratic engSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
agement. Education reform has moved centre stage as many governments embark on substantial programs of reform in a bid to modernise their education syÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionss of student achievement levels.2 International surveys of student achievement such PIRLS, TIMSS and PISA receive considerable media coverage with the creation of league tables’ of country results. They have become increasingly influential with governments concerned to boost their average attainment School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections levels and reduce the achievement gap between different groups of students (boys and girls, those from low compared with high SES, minority ethnic grSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
oups). The political impact of low performance has been considerable, for example in both Denmark and Germany reviews of the education system were conÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionseform strategies, however, have not made explicit use of the school effectiveness and improvement (SESI) knowledge base, although in the UK, particularly in England there has been increasing interest in SESI approaches during the last decade.What are the messages from school effectiveness research f School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsor practitioners and policy makers concerned to create more successful schools? Many leading researchers in the field have addressed this topic (CreemSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
ers, Mortimore, Reynolds, Scheerens, Teddlie, Townsend). This paper explores the contribution SER studies have made to our understanding of school perÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsntury. The field's strong links with the study of equity in education are also relevant given the increasing attention paid to education as a means of promoting wider policies of social inclusion and reducing the achievement gap in many countries and the paper1 http://www.un.org/esa/population/publi School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionscations/worldageingl9502050/pdf/91chapterv.pdf: Hopkins & Levin 20002examines some of the findings on the characteristics of successful or improving sSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
chools in challenging contexts.School effectiveness and equityAttempts to define equality and equity in education draw on notions of social justice anÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsuality of outcomeAfter Gillborn and Youdell (2000)Since its inception the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) has brought together researchers, practitioners and policy makers to co-contstruct knowledge about the study and processes of effective and improving scho School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsols in different international contexts and equity considerations have remained a key focus of many studies.In most systems students from disadvantageSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
d backgrounds (especially those from minority ethnic backgrounds, and those experiencing a range of social disadvantages such as low income, parents lÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections the equity gap in achievement is wider in some systems than others. Multiple disadvantage can have a cumulative effect while inter-generational transmission of disadvantage is illustrated by the concept of the ‘cycle of disadvantage’. The reasons for addressing school failure include:•philosophical School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections/ethical - to promote fairness and improve the quality of life and opportunities for all groups, as well as to encourage positive attitudes to learninSchool Effectiveness and Equity Making Connections
g and promote self-esteem and self-efficacy:•political - to promote social cohesion and inclusion and empower young people as active and informed citiÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges fo School Effectiveness and Equity Making Connectionsce crime and avoid the social and economic burden on Government.ÍỊỈ The University ofNottinghamSchool of EducationSchool Effectiveness and Equity: Making ConnectionsPam SammonsEmbracing Diversity: New challenges foGọi ngay
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