Alan Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 5167343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alan Foster is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Thames Polytechnic. He has had papers published in the fields of comparative politics and political education and is currently involved in research into “The British Press and the Origins of the Cold War” |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
School Leaders’ Perceptions of Participating in the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement
This investigation concerns school leaders’ perceptions regarding the efficacy of a leadership development initiative implemented across schools in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Based on an Alberta school improvement process, the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement sought to achieve leadership development and improved learning outcomes through use of the processes of collaborative inquiry and generative dialogue.…
Uplifting leadership for real school improvement—The North Coast Initiative for School Improvement
This paper reports on a preliminary Australian adoption and adaptation, in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, of the Townsend and Adams’ model of leadership growth for school improvement in Alberta. The Australian adaptation of this Alberta model has been named the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement (NCISI). The participants comprise nine university academics and almost one hundred regional school leaders. Leadership…
The Times and Appeasement
Few historians of British foreign policy in the 1930s have resisted the temptation to comment upon the role played by The Times during that decade in the support the newspaper offered for the official policy of the appeasement of Germany. Far less remarked upon has been the same newspaper's advocacy of the appeasement of the Soviet Union in the 1940s, as the harmony of the wartime Grand Alliance gave way to the discord and antagonism of the early…
The Times and Appeasement
Few historians of British foreign policy in the 1930s have resisted the temptation to comment upon the role played by The Times during that decade in the support the newspaper offered for the official policy of the appeasement of Germany. Far less remarked upon has been the same newspaper's advocacy of the appeasement of the Soviet Union in the 1940s, as the harmony of the wartime Grand Alliance gave way to the discord and antagonism of the early…
The Times and Appeasement
Few historians of British foreign policy in the 1930s have resisted the temptation to comment upon the role played by The Times during that decade in the support the newspaper offered for the official policy of the appeasement of Germany. Far less remarked upon has been the same newspaper's advocacy of the appeasement of the Soviet Union in the 1940s, as the harmony of the wartime Grand Alliance gave way to the discord and antagonism of the early…
Uplifting leadership for real school improvement—The North Coast Initiative for School Improvement
This paper reports on a preliminary Australian adoption and adaptation, in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, of the Townsend and Adams’ model of leadership growth for school improvement in Alberta. The Australian adaptation of this Alberta model has been named the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement (NCISI). The participants comprise nine university academics and almost one hundred regional school leaders. Leadership…
School Leaders’ Perceptions of Participating in the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement
This investigation concerns school leaders’ perceptions regarding the efficacy of a leadership development initiative implemented across schools in the North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Based on an Alberta school improvement process, the North Coast Initiative for School Improvement sought to achieve leadership development and improved learning outcomes through use of the processes of collaborative inquiry and generative dialogue.…
Educational leadership (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Appeasement (1 work) · Australian History and Society (1 work) · Education Systems and Policy (1 work) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (1 work) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (1 work) · European Political History Analysis (1 work)