Tony Townsend
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Townsend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Townsend |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNSEND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0409-2849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Challenge to Change
This paper considers the articles presented in this Special Issue and argues that, in most developed education systems in Western countries, there have been four major shifts in how school education is understood and delivered over the course of human history, from a time when only the wealthy and privileged received an education to the present day. It tracks changes in school leadership since the 1980s, when a combination of efforts to improve t…
Transforming Educational Leadership
The purpose of this article is to provide a context for this Special Issue, which considers the transformation of school leadership over time, providing some background to the roots of where we are now [...]
Fostering interdisciplinary research in universities
The aim of this paper is to describe actions designed to foster interdisciplinary research efforts at a major university in the UK. The study employed a descriptive mixed method case study approach to collecting and analysing the data used to draw its conclusions. One hundred and twenty-seven academic staff responded to the survey. The results of the survey were verified by 25 interviews with heads of colleges, heads of schools, research coordina…
Educational effectiveness research (EER)
Research and scholarship into educational effectiveness research (EER) is comprehensively reviewed from the UK, The Netherlands, the US, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and other societies, dating from the field’s origins in the 1970s. Issues include its history, methodological and theoretical advances, scientific properties of school effects, processes at school and classroom level behind these effects, the some…
The Elusive What and the Problematic How
"For the authors in this book, there can be no valid excuses for ignorance in any aspect of education as theory/practice. That is: - If we come to learn that all educational problems involve knowledge of complex systems and processes, then quick, simple solutions should not be an educator’s first or only expedient option. - If all education requires a measure of cultural and contextual understandings, then uniform, standardized programs and lesso…
The elusive what and the problematic how
Conclusion
Community Education
In this article, the authors present an overview of Community Education, explaining that it is an educational philosophy that links together leisure, social, cultural, educational, and health initiatives together with community development and other human and lifelong learning needs in the planning and delivery of services at the local level. They stress the fact that Community Education is different from traditional western education and argue t…
Fostering interdisciplinary research in universities
The aim of this paper is to describe actions designed to foster interdisciplinary research efforts at a major university in the UK. The study employed a descriptive mixed method case study approach to collecting and analysing the data used to draw its conclusions. One hundred and twenty-seven academic staff responded to the survey. The results of the survey were verified by 25 interviews with heads of colleges, heads of schools, research coordina…
Community Education
In this article, the authors present an overview of Community Education, explaining that it is an educational philosophy that links together leisure, social, cultural, educational, and health initiatives together with community development and other human and lifelong learning needs in the planning and delivery of services at the local level. They stress the fact that Community Education is different from traditional western education and argue t…
The Elusive What and the Problematic How
"For the authors in this book, there can be no valid excuses for ignorance in any aspect of education as theory/practice. That is: - If we come to learn that all educational problems involve knowledge of complex systems and processes, then quick, simple solutions should not be an educator’s first or only expedient option. - If all education requires a measure of cultural and contextual understandings, then uniform, standardized programs and lesso…
The elusive what and the problematic how
Conclusion
Educational effectiveness research (EER)
Research and scholarship into educational effectiveness research (EER) is comprehensively reviewed from the UK, The Netherlands, the US, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden, France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and other societies, dating from the field’s origins in the 1970s. Issues include its history, methodological and theoretical advances, scientific properties of school effects, processes at school and classroom level behind these effects, the some…
Fostering interdisciplinary research in universities
The aim of this paper is to describe actions designed to foster interdisciplinary research efforts at a major university in the UK. The study employed a descriptive mixed method case study approach to collecting and analysing the data used to draw its conclusions. One hundred and twenty-seven academic staff responded to the survey. The results of the survey were verified by 25 interviews with heads of colleges, heads of schools, research coordina…
The Challenge to Change
This paper considers the articles presented in this Special Issue and argues that, in most developed education systems in Western countries, there have been four major shifts in how school education is understood and delivered over the course of human history, from a time when only the wealthy and privileged received an education to the present day. It tracks changes in school leadership since the 1980s, when a combination of efforts to improve t…
Transforming Educational Leadership
The purpose of this article is to provide a context for this Special Issue, which considers the transformation of school leadership over time, providing some background to the roots of where we are now [...]
Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Educational leadership (2 works) · Higher education (2 works)