School Effectiveness and School-Based Management

This new edition addresses the burning issues about how school-based management (SBM) and school effectiveness should be related to the new paradigm in education. It will benefit the understanding, policy formulation, school practice and research of the key stakeholders including policy makers, educators, change agents, and researchers.

Yin Cheong Cheng (EdD, Harvard) is emeritus professor of education and senior research fellow of The Education University of Hong Kong. He was president of the World Educational Research Association and the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association. His research interest includes education reforms, leadership development, paradigm shift, and school management. Some of his publications have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, Spanish, Czech, Thai, and Persian languages. His latest publication is "Y.C. Cheng (2019). Paradigm shift in education: Towards the third wave of effectiveness, Routledge".

PART 1 School effectiveness 1. Multiple school functions 2. Models of school effectiveness 3. Pursuit of dynamic school effectiveness PART 2 School-based mechanism 4. Theory of school-based management 5. Multi-level self-management 6. Implementation of self-management 7. A school-based mechanism for development PART 3 Leadership for change 8. Leadership for school-based management 9. Management of school-based staff development 10. Management of school-based change 11. Management of school-based curriculum change and development PART 4 Future developments 12. Future developments: Towards the third-wave research