Leading and Transforming Education Systems: Evidence, Insights, Critique and Reflections

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Editors and Contributors
Introduction
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1 Leading and Transforming Education Systems: Two Canadian Examples
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Context: A Snapshot of Ontario, Canada
1.3 Approach to Reform
1.3.1 The Ontario Improvement Strategy: Personal Reflections, Lessons Learned
1.4 The Consultations
1.5 What We Heard
1.6 What We Recommended
1.7 An Implementation Strategy—The Key to Successful Reform
1.8 Response from the Minister of Education to the Recommendation in the Report
1.9 Challenges
1.10 Addendum to article:
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2 Leading and Transforming Education Systems: A System Approach to Curriculum Reform in Wales
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Improvement Challenges
2.3 Systemic Reform in Wales
2.4 Subsidiarity and Co-construction
2.5 Professional Learning
2.6 Accountability
2.7 Reflections
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3 System Reform in China: Mobilising and Sharing Resources Across Schools
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Improvement Challenges
3.2.1 The Hukou System
3.2.2 The Key School Policy
3.3 Approaches to Reform
3.3.1 Expanding Financial Investment in Weak Schools and Disadvantaged Students
3.3.2 Implementing Structural Innovations to Strengthen Weak Schools
3.3.3 Promoting Cross-School Teacher Learning and Sharing Quality Teacher Resources
3.4 Discussion
3.4.1 Reform Outcomes and Remaining Challenges
3.4.2 Lessons that Can Be Drawn from Shanghai
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4 Change in the Early Childhood Care and Education Sector in Singapore
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Recent Developments
4.3 A New Early Childhood Education Landscape
4.4 Issues and Challenges
4.4.1 Private Sector
4.4.2 Parents
4.4.3 ECCE Educators
4.4.4 Government
4.5 Conclusion
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5 The English School Reforms: Competition, Innovation and Fragmentation
5.1 School Autonomy
5.2 The English Reforms
5.3 Taking a Closer Look
5.4 A School on the Move
5.5 Wider Implications
5.6 Drawing Out the Lessons
5.7 Conclusion
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6 Chile: Changing the Teaching Profession, the Most Challenging Reform
6.1 A Systemic Reform for Classroom Instruction
6.1.1 A Common (and Improved) Statute for All Classroom Teachers
6.1.2 A Professional Career Driven by Merit and Motivation
6.1.3 A More Regulated Training in Terms of Quality and Adequacy
6.2 A Brief yet Difficult Political Procedure
6.3 Lessons Learned from the Reform Process
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7 The Role of Ministerial Leadership in System Transformation—Some Reflections from Wales
7.1 Introduction and Context
7.1.1 Improvement Challenges: Wales in December 2009—The Need for Whole-System Reform
7.1.2 Tri-level School Reform: The Welsh Approach
7.1.3 Outcomes and Reflections
7.1.4 Conclusion: Structure, Agency and Ministerial Legacy
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8 Transformation in New South Wales Through Collaborative Professional Engagement: From Ambition to Actualization
8.1 Introduction
8.2 About New South Wales
8.3 Teacher Insight: Evidence for Action
8.4 Powerful Learning Is at Hand
8.5 Systems to Support Collaborative Practice
8.6 Educational Policy Is Mediated Through School Leadership
8.7 Aligning Teacher, Leader, School and Student Learning
8.8 Future Pathways
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9 Building the Capacity for Collective Responsibility in Norway
9.1 Introduction
9.1.1 Responsibility and Accountability in (A Norwegian) Context
9.2 Our Education in Norway
9.3 Responsibility in Accountability
9.4 What Does It Take to Support Responsibility?
9.5 Conclusion
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10 Education in Wales: Attempting Systemic Reform to Combat Underachievement, 2000–2018
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Limited Take up of Effectiveness/Improvement Knowledge
10.3 The Downsides of Welsh Political Involvement in Education
10.4 The Reliance on External–to–Wales Solutions
10.5 Strategy One—Focus on Within-School Variation
10.6 Strategy Two: Focus upon Instructional Leadership
10.7 Strategy Three: Ensure Effective Improvement Is Contextually Variable
10.8 Strategy Four—Develop Educational Thought Leadership on “Big Picture” Issues
10.9 Strategy Five—Learn from Thinking in Non Educational Sectors on “Leadership”
10.10 Strategy Six: Impact upon Reform Reliability as Well as Validity
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11 Transformation of School Education System in Russia: 2007–2017
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Improvement Challenges/Imperatives
11.3 Reforms
11.4 Outcomes
11.5 Reflections
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12 System Transformation in Spanish Education Agenda: Inclusion and Networking as Policy Priorities?
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Spanish Education System
12.3 Key Challenges
12.3.1 Inclusion
12.3.2 Networking in School Contexts
12.4 Spanish PLNs for Greater Inclusion
12.5 Future Steps
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13 Inventing the Future: Why International Borrowing is no Longer Sufficient for Improving Education
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Lessons that Cannot Be Learned
13.3 Same Paradigm of Education
13.4 Variations in Realization
13.5 Chinese Performance as a Cultural Effect
13.6 Creativity in America as an Accident
13.7 The Challenge
13.8 Race Between Education and Technology
13.9 Redefining the Value of Knowledge and Skills
13.10 A New Paradigm
13.11 The Raw Materials
13.12 Tools at Hand
13.13 Possible Elements of a New Paradigm of Education
13.14 Personalizable
13.15 Value Creation and Product-Oriented Learning
13.16 Globalized Campus
13.17 An Uncertain Future: Conclusions
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Conclusion: Insights and Reflections Michelle Jones and Alma Harris
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