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Book SynopsisEducation Game Changers is written for an international readership. This book refers to all education levels and sectors and builds on research in educational leadership, education business, and organizational change. Karen E. Starr describes policy paradoxes challenging the sustainability of educational provision as we know it and the imperatives they present for educational leadership, business, and governance. This book critiques the paradoxical education policy context while exploring alternative futures they may spawn. It ponders both possibilities and pitfalls that cannot be ignored by instrumental players such as governments, policy-makers, educational leaders and business managers, researchers, and analysts. This book unveils rising cases of education business failures around the world, the paucity of governance and business skill on educational boards, and the irrational contradictions faced by governments in determining education policy.
Table of ContentsContents Preface Chapter 1Change, challenge and paradox Chapter 2Economic constraint versus social imperative Chapter 3Equity versus excellence Chapter 4Efficiency versus productivity Chapter 5Autonomy versus control Chapter 6Individual differentiation versus standardization Chapter 7‘New world’ versus ‘Old World’ thinking Chapter 8Sustainability versus growth Chapter 9 ‘Work-life’ balance versus work intensification Chapter 10 The genie is out of the bottle: Game-changing paradox, dissonance and dissent References
