The State of Independence: Key Challenges Facing Private Schools Today

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5240-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Exploring the most significant challenges facing independent schools today, this book asks leading figures from education, economics, politics, philosophy and the arts to give their views on how independent schools can adapt to rapidly changing markets which see them scrutinised as never before.

Acknowledging the independent sector as a vital and growing part of the global education system, this book explores how schools are to respond to financial, moral, pastoral and academic challenges, and so ensure their own survival, and the futures of the children they educate. Breaking a complex and varied field down into ten clear areas of analysis, essays written by leading education experts tackle the key challenges faced by independent schools around the world. Commentators consider the issues created by the upward trend of educating international students, question the extent to which independent schools have echoed societal movements towards greater access, diversity and gender fluidity, and provide first-hand insight into the experiences of staff, pupils and parents involved in the everyday functioning and longer-term development of the independent sector.

A health check on this most controversial of sectors, this book will enlighten and inform not only those working in independent schools today, but anyone interested in education, and will make an important contribution to a bigger debate about the place of independent schools at a time of political, economic and societal uncertainty.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, David

Lunnon, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Privatschulen, alternative Schulformen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungsökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements About the Editors About the Contributors Introduction Chapter 1: The Pastoral Challenge Chapter 2: The Academic Challenge Chapter 3: The Junior Challenge Chapter 4: The Financial Challenge Chapter 5: The Access Challenge Chapter 6: Diversity Challenge Chapter 7: The Gender Challenge Chapter 8: The Innovation Challenge Chapter 9: The International Challenge Chapter 10 The Political Challenge Conclusion Index

Über Autor(innen)

David James teaches English, and is Deputy Head at Bryanston School, UK. He has worked in independent schools for over 20 years. He is also an editor and author.

Jane Lunnon is Head of Wimbledon High School, London, UK. She has taught in independent schools for over 20 years.