Collaboration in the Leading Edge Partnership Programme in England

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  • Mochida Kengo
    Department of Education, Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University : Professor : Comparative Education

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  • イギリスのリーディングエッジ・パートナーシップ・プログラムにおける協働
  • イギリス ノ リーディング エッジ パートナーシップ プログラム ニ オケル キョウドウ

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In the current education reform in England various initiatives for raising pupils' achievement have been introduced by the DfES. One of the main principles on which these initiatives are based is collaboration. The DfES has been increasingly encouraging collaboration as a fundamental principle for school improvement in recent years. It seems that the DfES intends to shift nature of 'culture of education' from competition to collaboration. The Leading Edge Partnership Programme is an initiative which aims to improve schools and to raise standards through collaboration between schools. This paper examines how collaboration between secondary schools is operating in the Leading Edge Partnership Programme (LEPP). First, it explains purposes of the LEPP and processes of its operation. The most prominent feature of the LEPP is that a lead school is required to help and to support partner schools in difficult situations through various means of collaboration. Second, it points out, basing on documents of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust that has taken a responsibility for the LEPP along with the DfES, that the LEPP is a major element for promoting a school-led system leadership. Third, it deals with several evaluations on the LEPP and self evaluations by schools themselves. Fourth, basing on interviews carried out by the author, it illuminates opinions of headteachers on the LEPP. Particularly it indicates that many headteachers acknowledge that collaboration is more effective to achieve a system-wide improvement than competition.

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