Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1. The challenges of modernisation Part One: Modernizing the Workforce Chapter 2. A Changing Workforce Chapter 3. Workforce, workload and work-life balance: the initial impacts of modernization in English schools Chapter 4. Challenging and changing role boundaries Part Two: Modernizing the Organisation Chapter 5. Leading a modernized school Chapter 6. Remodelling leadership Chapter 7. Networking change Part Three: Modernizing Learning Chapter 8. Remodelling learning Chapter 9. Learning and ICT Chapter 10. Leading and managing ICT Part Four: Modernizing Change: Strategic Perspectives Chapter 11. Democratisation and the re-making of teachers in South African Schools Chapter 12. Remodelling the agenda, schools and schooling: A New Zealand Perspective Chapter 13. Not wanted on the Campus: University Politics and Teacher Education in Ontario 1945-2001 Chapter 14. Navigating 'global' modernisation policies in education: responses from Australia Chapter 15. The globalisation of education and the modernization of schools: a comparative study of French and English educational policies Chapter 16. Whither modernization? Appendix 1: The Transforming the School Workforce Pathfinder Project Appendix 2: The ICT Test Bed Project References/Index

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This book draws together research which looks at the challenge of the modernisation of education and considers underpinning concepts and policies.

About the Author

Graham Butt is Professor in Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.