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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

 

Recent publications

• P Hansson & K Malmberg (editors) "Education with a moral purpose. Educational leadership, management and governance för a sustainable future" Proceedings of the 16th annual meeting of eruopean netvwork för improving research and development in education leadership and management, September 20th.23rd 2007. Faculty of Educational Sciences, Uppsala university
• Pol, Milan. Skola v promenach (School in Transformation) Brno: Masaryk
  University Press, 2007. 194 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4499-9.
• Pasi Sahlberg Article ‘Secondary education in OECD countries: Common challenges, differing solutions’ (This article can be downloaded at www.pasisahlberg.com)
• Bosiak, S. and Michalko, J. (2006) ABC of Statistics FSEV TNUAD Trencín,
  Slovakia, 160 pp. ISBN 80-8075-125-0

John Chi-kin Lee and Michael Williams (eds.) 2006. School Improvement: International Perspectives. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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

"School Improvement: International Perspectives"

This book is written for national educational policy makers, teachers and student teachers, governing bodies and parents from various levels of schooling, and university researchers and scholars. The following chapters are contributed by ENIRDELM friends:

• Chapter 2. Leadership and Management in School Improvement - Ray Bolam
  Chapter 3. School Culture and Professional Learning Community: Some Implications for School Improvement - Agnes McMahon
• Chapter 18.Canadian Approaches to School Improvement and Educational Change - Andy Hargreaves and Dean Fink
  Chapter 22. School Development – A Matter of Approaching the Available Scope for Action - Gunnar Berg
  Chapter 24. School Improvement in Germany: Current State and Outlook - Uwe Hameyer

In addition to his chapter above, Gunnar has recently published:

• Berg, Gunnar. 2007 ‘From structural dilemmas to institutional imperatives: a descriptive theory of the school as an institution and of school organizations’ Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39 (5)
• Schollaert R., Leenheer P. (eds.). (2006) Spirals of Change. Educational Change as a Driving Force for School Improvement. Leuven: Lannoo Campus Publishers.
• Danuta Elsner has two chapters in this anthology produced by a Comenius project on managing change in which she was involved.
• Nielsen, S. Angeloska-Galevska, N and Ciolan, L (2008) Bringing teachers back to the scene. Transformation of VET teachers and teaching in South East Europe Turin: ETF

Chapters by ENIRDELM members include:

• Natasha Angelovska-Galevska – ‘Institutional models and developments in the system of pre-service and in-service training of teachers of vocational education and training in South East Europe: A Cross-Country analysis’;
  
• Lucian Ciolan - ‘Professional identity of VET teachers in transition’ and ‘From teaching to learning – and from policy copying towards policy learning for teachers?’;
  
• Hans Jörgen Knudsen – ‘How to achieve real change in school classrooms and laboratories – a proposal for developing collective competence development strategies’;
  
• Alqi Mustafai our Albanian correspondent, has also contributed a case study on the VET system in Albania.

Bo Sundstrom - The Face of Youth Unemployment

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?"

 

Big changes in education in Norway

Gunnar Skaar our Norwegian Activator updates ENIRDEM Members on recent educational reforms in Norway, 2004

UNESCO summary of Curriculum Framework and Policies

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.

 

ENIRDEM Umbrella concept

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.

 

ENIRDEM fantasia

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

 

ENIRDEM retrospective 2005

A link to the outline of progress over the first fifteen years of networking by ENIRDEM friends

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