Educational Accountability: International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership provides an opportunity to assess, reflect on, and discuss current issues surrounding accountability policies in education from around the globe and the implications they hold for school leadership. It addresses the global trend of accountability policies expanding in scope to include the education profession as well as the increasing incidence of international policy borrowing, brought on chiefly by globalisation.
Specific case studies offer a contextual examination of the theory, policy and practice of accountability and an inspection of their influence on school leadership. Cases are intentionally juxtaposed to provide a broad perspective of regional and cultural similarities and departures, and are arranged to reflect the diasporic Chinese, Anglo, European, and Hispanic societies.
Bringing together a number of highly regarded experts within the field, the book cultivates a global perspective on the challenges and possibilities for school leaders to foster school effectiveness and improvement. Educational Accountability should be key reading for researchers, policy makers, and current and future school leaders.
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Educational Accountability Across Global Contexts Jacob Easley II 2 Principal Leadership And Accountability In Australia: A Fine Balance Indeed Simon Clarke & Neil Dempster 3 Aotearoa New Zealand: Examining The Challenges Of Educational Accountability Policies And Exploring Possibilities For School Leadership Jan Robertson & Mary Hill 4 From Policy And Practice To Possibilities: The Context Of Educational Accountability in The U.S. And Praxis of School Leadership Jacob Easley II & Mohammed Elmeski 5 Chile: School Leadership Challenged By Double Accountability Towards Schools José Weinstein, Javiera Marfán, Andrea Horn, Gonzalo Muñoz 6 School Accountability Policy In Practice: Learning byBy Comparing Australiea, New Zealand, USA, and China James P. Spillane & Katie Mertz 7 Teacher Evaluation And Educational Accountability in China: Implications for School Leadership Ting Wang 8 The School Development And Accountability Framework in Hong Kong: Possibilities Of Educational Leadership Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang 9 School Education and Accountability In India: Mapping Current Policies And Practices Pranati Panda 10 The Promises and Perils of School Leadership for Accountability: Four Lessons from China, Hong Kong and India Moosung Lee & Misty M. Kirby 11 Accountability Policies And School Leadership in Austria: Increasing Competition And Little Accountability Anna Kanape-Willingshofer, Herbert Altrichter, David Kemethofer 12 Top-down Accountability And Local Management: Tensions And Contradictions Experienced By French Principals As Leaders Romuald Normand & Jean-Louis Derouet 13 Accountability In The German School System: More Of A Burden Than A Preference Stephan Gerhard Huber, Bettina-Maria Gördel, Selin Kilic, Pierre Tulowitzki 14 Swinging Between Two Platforms: Accountability Policy In The Netherlands And Educational Leadership In And Around Schools Jeroen Imants, Yvonne Zwart, Peter Breur 15 Emerging Accountability Policies And Practices In Education: The Case Of Norway Guri Skedsmo and Sølvi Mausethagen 16 Accountability Policies Across Austria, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Norway Jorunn Møller 17 Educational Accountability Around The Globe: Challenges and Possibilities for School Leadership Pierre Tulowitzki
