R&L Education
Pages: 288
Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-1-57886-601-4 • Hardback • March 2007 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-57886-602-1 • Paperback • February 2007 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Alan Bain is associate professor of inclusive education at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and an international consultant to schools, education systems and industry on technology integration and school reform.
1 Introduction
2 Next
3 Theory
4 Self-Organization
5 Simple Rules
6 Embedded Design
7 Scaling Up
8 Emergent Feedback
9 Technology
10 Results
11 Emergence
The Self-Organizing School is unique in providing a comprehensive, research-driven approach to systemic, site-based school reform—an approach that successfully melds the theoretical with the practical. Bain understands the realities and challenges from a principal's perspective and embeds his detailed study in the examples of real experience drawn from an 11-year school reform process. Cogent in its advice and a compelling read, The Self-Organizing School is a must for all school leaders committed to effecting real, transformational change in today's demanding educational context.
— Simon Gipson, principal, St. Michael's Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia
The Self-Organizing School shows what it takes to sustain and scale technology-driven school reform. This book captures the scope and the process from theory to practice and includes essential understandings for anyone interested in large scale change in education.
— Angus S. King Jr., governor of Maine, 1995-2003
The Self-Organizing School places technology where it belongs in school reform—at the heart of what students and teachers do in classrooms every day. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in school change and the role technology can play in making educational reform deep, meaningful and sustainable.
— Mark Weston, education strategist, Dell, Inc.