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Book Review: Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

Book Review: Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools Restructuring and quality: Issues for tomorrow's schools Edited by Tony Townsend London: Routledge, 1997. 231pp. ISBN 0-415-13339-4 One of the greater educational myths of our time is the notion of a causal link between efforts to restructure the education system and the pursuit of educational quality. Editor Tony Townsend has assembled a twelve-chapter book that explores these two themes comprehensively, comparatively, and with some success. All fourteen contributors have first-hand experience with restructuring initiatives in their home countries and, in most cases, are internationally known for their research and scholarship in this area. The book has two broad aims. One is to explain what constitutes educational 'quality' in various sectors of the English-speaking world today. The other is broadly to explore the issues, strategies and outcomes associated with the educational reform movement which has so preoccupied educators for the past decade or more. Achieving the first aim of the book, a robust understanding of what constitutes quality in education, is a significant challenge - no easy task given the radically different educational contexts of the Australian, European and North American educational systems represented in this book. Evers and Lakomski (1993) have previously used the term 'isomorphism' to illustrate the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Book Review: Restructuring and Quality: Issues for Tomorrow's Schools

Begley, Paul T.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 42 (2): 3 – Aug 1, 1998
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SAGE
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© 1998 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494419804200210
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Restructuring and quality: Issues for tomorrow's schools Edited by Tony Townsend London: Routledge, 1997. 231pp. ISBN 0-415-13339-4 One of the greater educational myths of our time is the notion of a causal link between efforts to restructure the education system and the pursuit of educational quality. Editor Tony Townsend has assembled a twelve-chapter book that explores these two themes comprehensively, comparatively, and with some success. All fourteen contributors have first-hand experience with restructuring initiatives in their home countries and, in most cases, are internationally known for their research and scholarship in this area. The book has two broad aims. One is to explain what constitutes educational 'quality' in various sectors of the English-speaking world today. The other is broadly to explore the issues, strategies and outcomes associated with the educational reform movement which has so preoccupied educators for the past decade or more. Achieving the first aim of the book, a robust understanding of what constitutes quality in education, is a significant challenge - no easy task given the radically different educational contexts of the Australian, European and North American educational systems represented in this book. Evers and Lakomski (1993) have previously used the term 'isomorphism' to illustrate the

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