Ehren, MCM;
Janssens, FJG;
Brown, M;
McNamara, G;
O’Hara, J;
Shevlin, P;
(2017)
Evaluation and decentralised governance: Examples of inspections in polycentric education systems.
Journal of Educational Change
, 18
(3)
10.1007/s10833-017-9297-9.
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Abstract
Across Europe schools and other service providers increasingly operate in networks to provide inclusive education or develop and implement more localized school-to-school improvement models. As some education systems move towards more decentralized decision-making where multiple actors have an active role in steering and governing schools, the tasks and responsibilities of Inspectorates of Education must also change. This paper reflects on these changes and suggests ‘polycentric’ inspection models that fit such a decentralized context. Examples of inspection frameworks and methods from Northern Ireland, England and the Netherlands are provided, as well as a brief discussion of the potential impact of such ‘polycentric’ models.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Evaluation and decentralised governance: Examples of inspections in polycentric education systems |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10833-017-9297-9 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-017-9297-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | School networks, Polycentric systems, School inspections, Improvement |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1567844 |
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