Trust, Accountability and Capacity in Education System Reform

Melanie Ehren is a professor in educational governance and the Director of research institute LEARN! at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an honorary professor at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.Jacqueline Baxter is an associate professor in Public Policy and Management and the Director of the Centre for Research and Innovation in Online Business and Legal Education at The Open University, UK.

• 1 Trust, capacity and accountability: three building blocks of education system reformMelanie Ehren and Jacqueline Baxter 2 Governance of education systems; trust, accountability and capacity in hierarchies, markets and networksMelanie Ehren and Jacqueline Baxter 3 Trust-based accountability in education: the role of intrinsic motivationFrederique Six 4 Distrusting cultures and contexts and capacity for education system improvementJacqueline Baxter 5 Accountability to build school and system improvement capacityMelanie Ehren and Reinhard Bachmann6 Inner-group trust and school autonomy in a segregated school system; parental self-segregation in the NetherlandsMelanie Ehren 7 Trust and accountability in the contracting of school improvement: Austria’s quality management systemHerbert Altrichter 8 Hierarchical Structures with Networks for Accountability and Capacity building in Singapore: An Evolutionary ApproachShu Shing Lee, Lee Yong Tay and Jeanne Ho 9 Educational technology to improve capacity; integrating adaptive education programs in public school in KenyaThomas Kaye 10 From Hierarchy and Market to Hierarchy and Network Governance in Chile: Enhancing Accountability, Capacity and Trust in Public EducationCarmen Montecinos, Alvaro Gonzalez and Melanie Ehren 11 Contrasting approaches, comparable efficacy? : How macro-level trust influences teacher accountability in Finland and SingaporeYue-Yi Hwa 12 Distrust, accountability and capacity in South Africa’ Fragmented education systemNomancotsho Pakade and Thokozani Chilenga-Butao 13 Downward Spiral or Upward Trajectory?: Building a Public Profession to Meet the Shifting Technical, Social, and Political Demands of Education Joshua L. Glazer and Jal Mehta14 Trust, Capacity and Accountability: A Triptych for Improving Learning OutcomesMelanie Ehren and Jacqueline Baxter