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SUMMARY:Book launch: Reinventing Schools\, Reforming Teaching: from politi
 cal visions to classroom reality - John Bangs\, John MacBeath and Maurice 
 Galton
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CONTACT:Katie O'Donovan
DESCRIPTION:What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy
 -makers and schools over the life of the ‘New’ Labour and its predeces
 sor Conservative government? What happened to ‘Education\, Education\, E
 ducation’ as it travelled from political vision to classroom practice? W
 hat are the lasting legacies of 13 years of a reforming Labour government?
  And what are the key messages for a coalition government?\n\nThese are th
 e questions addressed to the architects of educational reform\, their crit
 ics and the prophets of better things to come. The 37 interviewees include
  ministers past and present\, journalists\, union officials\, members of l
 obby groups and think tanks. Reinventing Schools\, Reforming Teaching cons
 iders the impact of educational policies on those who have to translate po
 litical priorities into the day to day work of schools and classrooms. The
  authors argue that an evidence-informed view of policy making has yet to 
 be realised\, graphically illustrating how many recent political decisions
  in education can be explained by the personal experiences\, predilections
  and short-term needs of key decision-makers.\n\nThe interviews\, which ex
 plore the dynamics behind the creation of education policies\, cover a wid
 e range of themes and issues\, including:\n\n    * policy makers' attitude
 s to schools\, the staff who work in them and the communities they serve\n
 \n    * the drivers of politicians' reform agendas and the constraints on 
 radical reform\n\n    * the shaping and reshaping of curriculum and assess
 ment\n\n    * the search for a more effective marriage between inspection 
 and school self evaluation\n\n    * the relationship of academic research 
 to policy making\n\n    * how a vision for teaching and teachers might be 
 constructed for the 21st century\n\nContributions from leading figures inc
 luding\; David Puttnam\, Kenneth Baker\, Estelle Morris\, Gillian Shepherd
 \, Jim Knight\, Pauline Perry\, Michael Barber\, Peter Mortimore\, Judy Se
 bba\, Paul Black\, Mary James\, Kevan Collins\, David Hargreaves\, Mike To
 mlinson\, David Berliner\, Andreas Schleicher\, Tim Brighouse\, Conor Ryan
 \, Keith Bartley\, Michael Gove and Philippa Cordingley are woven in with 
 the insights of teachers and headteachers such as Alasdair MacDonald and W
 illiam Atkinson.\n\nThe book's findings and proposals will be of interest 
 not only to professional educators and those with an interest in the curre
 nt and future state of education but to those interested in the process of
  policy-making itself.
LOCATION:Room to be confirmed\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Educ
 ation\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ
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