The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urban settings which serve highly disadvantaged communities relies upon the qualities and skills of their principals to engage, simultaneously, in capacity building at individual, collective and community levels. Definitions of capacity building as, ¿the interplay between personal abilities, interpersonal relationships, and organisational structures¿ (Mitchell and Sackney, 2000:11) are limited in their application for they often fail to acknowledge that over the course of the time needed to build stable and successful learning and achievement environments, principals are likely to have to move through a number of ¿layered¿ development phases, eac...
Is it really almost 10 years since we heralded in the new millennium? Time passes so quickly, yet lo...
Educational reform, focused on promoting student learning, depends on schools’ capacity to improve. ...
Constructing Capacities: Building Capabilities through Learning and Engagement explores several cont...
The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urba...
The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urba...
This paper is a modest exercise in theory building from a cultural sociological perspective, around ...
With schools continuing to fall short of No Child Left Behind standards and with future challenges j...
The increase of intense pressures to ensure long-term education reforms have created a challenge to ...
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature. H...
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature wi...
This paper critiques the notion of community capacity building (CCB) and the way it is increasingly ...
Since the early days of the 20th century, schools and educators have been subjected to numerous call...
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature wi...
This paper critiques the notion of community capacity building (CCB) and the way it is increasingly ...
Discussions of capacity should be broadened to include factors such as the relationships between ind...
Is it really almost 10 years since we heralded in the new millennium? Time passes so quickly, yet lo...
Educational reform, focused on promoting student learning, depends on schools’ capacity to improve. ...
Constructing Capacities: Building Capabilities through Learning and Engagement explores several cont...
The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urba...
The purpose of this paper is to show how successful, sustained school improvement in schools in urba...
This paper is a modest exercise in theory building from a cultural sociological perspective, around ...
With schools continuing to fall short of No Child Left Behind standards and with future challenges j...
The increase of intense pressures to ensure long-term education reforms have created a challenge to ...
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature. H...
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature wi...
This paper critiques the notion of community capacity building (CCB) and the way it is increasingly ...
Since the early days of the 20th century, schools and educators have been subjected to numerous call...
Capacity building is now mentioned synonymously with school improvement in much of the literature wi...
This paper critiques the notion of community capacity building (CCB) and the way it is increasingly ...
Discussions of capacity should be broadened to include factors such as the relationships between ind...
Is it really almost 10 years since we heralded in the new millennium? Time passes so quickly, yet lo...
Educational reform, focused on promoting student learning, depends on schools’ capacity to improve. ...
Constructing Capacities: Building Capabilities through Learning and Engagement explores several cont...