The ENIRDELM Newsletter contains a half-yearly update on books, papers and reports published by members
You will also find summaries of projects and acitivites as well as reviews and links to interesting websites
School improvement has attracted the attention of researchers and scholars in many countries. They have been drawn from various disciplines and fields within the educational studies community, including psychology, sociology, history, evaluation, and studies in curriculum and assessment. There is now an established body of findings from studies conducted in many contexts. This book brings together leading experts drawn from many countries and several continents, reflecting diverse approaches to educational policy and practice, evaluation and research. Variations between countries and between local communities within countries are highlighted. The possibilities and difficulties inherent in transferring evidence from one educational system, at a number of levels, to another are clearly discussed. What emerges from the cross-national and cross-cultural evidence are several significant threads, currently under active investigation, including: school structure and management, classroom organisation, school leadership, teacher training and staff development, curriculum and assessment, community involvement, lifelong learning and special provision for students with special educational needs
Chapters by ENIRDELM members include:
This paper was delivered by Bo from Sweden at the 2006 ENIRDELM Conference in Wales. It is sub-titled "Victim from the past Triple X process or a Spark Plug towards the Future?"
Gunnar Skaar our Norwegian Activator updates ENIRDEM Members on recent educational reforms in Norway, 2004
A concise update on the central issues that challenge curriculum developers around the world. It relates the the Education For All (EFA) initiative which has set goals for 2015 concerning the quality of both basic and secondary education.
Another idea and metaphor from the Bled 2001 Conference captured some of the enthusiasm inspired by the tenth anniversary and the new century. The umbrella is still offers a strategic guide to the ENIRDEM Board.
This fanciful idea to boost ENIRDEM networking activities between conferences was proposed at the Bled Conference in 2001 but proved to be too ambitious to be acted upon
A link to the outline of progress over the first fifteen years of networking by ENIRDEM friends
-Plans are underway for the Bergen conference 2008 Proceedings to be placed on the web-site
-The Glamorgan Conference 2006 Proceedings are now available and participants at the Bergen conference were subsequently issued with copies by Gerald Dunning
Call for papers
Reviews in the latest newletter
Hargreaves, A. Halász, G. and Pont, B. (December 2007) School leadership for systemic improvement in Finland: A case study report for the OECD activity ‘Improving school leadership’ (31pp + references and appendices)
Presentation
PROFILES OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTIONS
National College of School Leadership, England
see link http://www.ncsl.org.uk/aboutus/role/about-role.cfm