Overview
- Examines the role of the school inspector within the inspection process, offering valuable insights into the politics of inspection policy implementation
- Provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the ways in which inspectors influence the execution of inspection policy
- Explores several accountability regimes throughout OECD member states and how these regimes play out operationally within different cultural and policy contexts
- Examines the role of international drivers such as PISA and their impact on the changing role of inspection in OECD member states
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Accountability and Educational Improvement (ACED)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Inspection policy
- Inspection practices
- Inspection systems
- Purpose of school inspection
- Legitimacy of inspection policy
- Evaluation of educational quality
- The role of inspector
- Policy implementation
- Inspectorates
- Public policy
- Compulsory education
- Standards in education
- Education governance
- Educational accountability
About this book
This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy.
Inspection policy can have various unintended consequences, some of which produce radical discrepancies between the policy intent and its implementation. A number of these discrepancies derive from the way in which the policy is articulated while others derive from the ways in which inspectors interpret and operationalise this policy. This implementation is coloured and conditioned by several factors, including the evidence on which inspectors base their judgements; what counts as evidence in different policy contexts; what counts as valid knowledge in inspection processes; the qualities needed by inspectors working in differing policy contexts and the identities that they adopt in order to successfully carry out their work.The book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the politics and practices which colour and shape the legitimacy and operational execution of inspection policy. The work is unique in its focus on the inspectors’ role within the implementation of the inspection process— an element often overlooked in the literature. It also includes two chapters co-written by inspectors, offering unique insights into their life worlds and identities.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: School Inspectors
Book Subtitle: Policy Implementers, Policy Shapers in National Policy Contexts
Editors: Jacqueline Baxter
Series Title: Accountability and Educational Improvement
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52536-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52535-8Published: 21 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84928-7Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52536-5Published: 10 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2509-3320
Series E-ISSN: 2509-3339
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics