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Sustaining the Comprehensive Ideal

The Robert Clack School

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Authors:
  1. Trevor Male

    1. Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK

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  2. Ioanna Palaiologou

    1. Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK

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  • Builds on a solid foundation of data to investigate the range of influences on a school's success
  • Addresses the current debate surrounding 'failing schools' to ask whether failure is inevitable
  • Emphasises the centrality of leadership regarding the success of a school

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Improvement Process

    • Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou
    Pages 17-31

  4. Being Part of the School Community

    • Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou
    Pages 33-52

  5. Leadership: Theory and Practice

    • Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou
    Pages 53-70

  6. A Shock to the System

    • Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou
    Pages 71-82

  7. The End of an Era

    • Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou
    Pages 83-87

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 89-95
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About this book

This book explores the development of educational leadership within difficult contexts via the lens of a previously failing English secondary school in an area of urban poverty. Based on extensive interview data from 2012-2016, the authors demonstrate that the fundamental ethos underpinning the school’s improvement is a desire to meet the needs of young people in disadvantaged communities in order to equip them with the skills to allow them to transcend their situation. The authors posit that this school embodies the ‘comprehensive ideal’ of secondary education in England: that education should not be disadvantaged by background, and that the state should provide free and high quality education for all. This book will appeal to students and scholars of comprehensive education and schools in difficult contexts.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Education, University College London, London, UK

    Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou

About the authors

Trevor Male is Associate Professor at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at UCL Institute of Education, UK.
 
Ioanna Palaiologou is Research Associate at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at UCL, Institute of Education, UK.
 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustaining the Comprehensive Ideal

  • Book Subtitle: The Robert Clack School

  • Authors: Trevor Male, Ioanna Palaiologou

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34156-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34155-8Published: 31 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34158-9Published: 31 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34156-5Published: 14 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 95

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Schools and Schooling, Sociology of Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education

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