Changing Education Systems

<p>As countries seek to develop their education systems achieving sustainable improvements amongst students from disadvantaged backgrounds remains a major challenge. This has considerable implications for those in the research community as they seek to influence developments in the field. </p><p>Drawing on the authors’ extensive experiences as researchers policy advisers and influencers <i>Changing Education Systems </i>offers key insights on how to promote equity within education systems. Exploring three large-scale national reform programmes the book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Presents a series of propositions that are the basis of a research-based approach to system change</li> <p> </p> <li>Explains the creation of relationships in which academic researchers collaborate in the process of development</li> <p> </p> <li>Considers smaller place-based projects that are set within policy contexts dominated by the idea of market forces as a strategy for improvement</li> <p> </p> <li>Explores the steps needed to overcome locally specific barriers</li> </ul><p>Changing Education Systems is a must-read for policy-makers and practitioners involved in educational reforms as well as researchers wishing to contribute to and learn from such developments. </p>