John MacBeath

John MacBeath OBE (* 1940 ) is Professor Emeritus of Education at the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University . He is the director of Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network. Since 2002 he has been coordinating the Carpe Vitam Project , which investigates how school administrators can create a stimulating learning and working environment for students and teachers. The project is international and includes 22 schools from 7 countries. In addition, John MacBeath has placed the question of the effectiveness and self-evaluation of schools at the center of his research. He has presented a large number of studies on this subject.

Life

• School attendance in Canada
• 1960 to 1965 studied at the University of Glasgow , graduating with an MA in languages ​​and an MEd in education.
• Teaching at various schools in France and Scotland
• Founder and director of an independent reform school in Glasgow
• Lecturer at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow
• Professor at Strathclyde University and Director of the Center for Quality in Education
• Advisory work for the OECD , UNESCO , the European Commission, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and other institutions
• In 1997 he was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as an officer for his services to education .
• 2000 call to the University of Cambridge

Works

• Personal and Social Education , Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1988
• Effective School Leadership; Responding to Change , London, Paul Chapman / Sage, 1998
• Schools must speak for themselves: The case for school self evaluation , London, Routledge, 1999
• Effective School Leaders (with K. Myers) London, Prentice-Hall 1999.
• Improving school effectiveness (with P. Mortimore), Buckingham, Open University Press, 2001
• Serena, or: How people change their school. (together with M. Schratz, L. Jacobsen, D. Meuret) Innsbruck, Studien-Verlag, 2002. Title of the English original: “Self-evaluation in European schools. A story of change ", London, Routledge 2000
• Self-evaluation: what's in it for schools? , (with A. McGlynn), London, Routledge Falmer 2002
• Self-evaluation in the Global Classroom (together with H. Sugimoine, G. Sutherland and Masao Nishimura ), London, Routledge Falmer, 2002
• Consulting Pupils - A Toolkit for Teachers (together with Demetriou, H., Rudduck, J., Myers, K.), Cambridge, Pearson 2003
• Democratic Learning: the challenge to school effectiveness (together with Moos, L.), London, RoutledgeFalmer 2004
• The Leadership File Glasgow, Learning Files Scotland 2004
• The Self-evaluation File Glasgow, learning Files Scotland 2004
• School Inspection and Self-evaluation: working with the New Relationship London, RoutledgeFalmer 2006
• Leadership as a subversive activity University of Melbourne, ACEL / ASPA 2006
• The Costs of Inclusion (with Galton, M., Steward, S., MacBeath, A., Page, C. (2006)), London, National Union of Teachers 2006
• Schools on the Edge: Responding to Challenging Circumstances (together with Gray, JM, Cullen, J. Frost, D., Steward, S., Swaffield, S.), London, Paul Chapman 2007
• Learning In and Out of School. The selected works of John MacBeath, London, Routledge 2012
• Education and Schooling. Myth, heresy and misconception, London, Routledge 2014

Web links

• http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/staff/macbeath.html
• http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/lfl/
• http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/