Analysis of the Case Study of Ofstede School

OFSTEDE CASE STUDY
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Table of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Educational Policy analysis since 1976: PAGEREF _Toc63267125 \h 3School Effectiveness Theory: PAGEREF _Toc63267126 \h 4Effective and Ineffective Teaching practices: PAGEREF _Toc63267127 \h 6Accountability agenda in education: PAGEREF _Toc63267128 \h 8Change Management: PAGEREF _Toc63267129 \h 9References: PAGEREF _Toc63267130 \h 11
Ofstede Case Study
Educational Policy Analysis since 1976:
The educational policies and practices have undergone many changes since 1976. There has been a change in the perception of the concept and the learning outcomes of education. It is starting from the reign of the conservative party in 1979, which focused on vocational education and assisted placement of the gifted yet poor students in schools. Education Reform Act of 1988 is one of the critical milestones in the educational policies of the U.K. It has helped the primary and secondary schools develop the curriculum for students' required competencies and skills by proving the parameters and benchmarks for each stage (Education Reform Act 1988, 2021). It has form standards so that all students learn the same things in all schools. It included features for the students' assessment and the mandatory religious education requirements for the students with a focus on Christianity. By bringing all educational institutions under the scrutiny of the local authorities, this reform served the purpose of social unity, a vital government policy agenda.
Policies at later stages emphasize the development of necessary skills and competencies like literacy and numeracy. The educational system's labor party reforms included a particular focus on each student's needs rather than a more comprehensive education system. It also developed standards for the class size and targets the schools with lower quality of education (Leeds, 2021). The schools with more outstanding quality were granted more autonomy on their curriculum and national curriculum implementation. The role of teaching assistants became more functional than before with the labor party reforms.
One agenda of the labor part was to increase the inclusion of the neglected areas n the educational reforms and setting partnerships for low achieving schools for performance enhancement (Leeds, 2021). Apart from creating the social changes, these policies can have a political agenda for increasing the vote bank from a particular group? The reduction of inequality among the society, however, is usually the driver of many state policies.
The political drivers for maintaining the educational system can be economical and social. The global educational reforms that emerged on many countries' surface after the 1960 and 1970 have deep political roots. The new orthodoxy of the educational system was focused on the standardization f the curriculum and the emphasis on the narrower range of the subjects with the schools' management style (Fuller et al., 2019). There have also been critics of privatization and commercialization of the education system, which is also believed to be supported by the global political system's agenda (Fuller et al., 2019). With the gap in demand a...