Vision of a School: The Good School in the Good SocietyThis valuable book argues that without a confident, shared vision of what a good school is, we will be unable to identify good performance or promote good practice. The author argues that the good school has readily recognizable moral and intellectual traits, and he outlines how schools must be consciously organized, as a whole and in every field of education, to encourage these traits. A great deal has been written about how to improve schools, but very few books have the vision which will make them landmark texts in the field. |
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