BUILDING THE QUALITY SCHOOL: THE REAL CHALLENGE
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ABSTRACT. Translating school reform policy into practice requires getting at the heart of what schooling is all about - an exercise difficult to pursue, easy to avoid. School reform in Québec is no exception. The call for reform has raised critical questions about what is a "quality school," who determines it and how it is to be achieved. This article describes how a school-based project in Québec has attempted to bridge the gap between research and practice in determining school quality and highlights the views of practitioners who participated in the project as to the changes needed to get there. RÉSUMÉ. Pour mettre en pratique la politique de réforme des écoles, il faut se plonger au coeur de ce que signifie la scolarité, exercice difficile à réaliser, mais facile à éviter. La réforme scolaire au Québec ne fait pas exception à la règle. La volonté de réforme a suscité des questions critiques sur ce que l'on entend par "une école de qualité," sur qui en décide et sur la façon d'y parvenir. Cet article décrit la façon dont un projet scolaire au Québec a cherché à combler le fossé qui existe entre la recherche et la pratique pour déterminer la qualité d'une école et souligne les points de vue des praticiens qui ont participé au projet sur les changements qu'il faut opérer pour y parvenir.Downloads
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1999-09-01
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Sparkes, C. S., Dupuis, M., Fyfe, D., Sullivan, J., & Taylor, T. (1999). BUILDING THE QUALITY SCHOOL: THE REAL CHALLENGE. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 34(003). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/8496
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