Capacity Building for School Improvement: Revisited

The purpose of this book is to help promote an understanding of attributes, practices and themes related to capacity building for school improvement. Many questions related to this phenomenon have, as yet, gone unanswered or unexplained by the literature. This book examines capacity building for school improvement at the level of practice where school stakeholders craft and sustain the improvement process. Using this school as a case in point, the book explains, describes and analyses the following:
– Capacity building embedded in external (macro) and internal (micro) contexts of reform and change;
– Attributes and practices which underpin the phenomenon; and
– Attributes, practices and emerging themes that contribute to a model of capacity building for school improvement.

The book addresses concerns and questions related to capacity building as seen through the eyes of a variety of school stakeholders: the principal; senior managers; teachers; auxiliary staff; and parents directly engaged in improvement efforts. In practice, it determines and makes recommendations on what policy makers, reform developers and school stakeholders can do to enhance the building of capacity for improvement. The book features vignettes that exemplify successful practice. Recommendations, summarised in Chapter 10, may be of assistance in future development of policies and policy implementation measures that build capacity for school improvement.