Improving Schools

Impact Factor: 2

Coeditors-in-Chief: Martin Brown, Shelley D. Zion, Sedat Gümüş

Discipline: Education

Description:

Improving Schools provides an international forum for peer-reviewed research that interrogates, reimagines and strengthens school improvement, with particular attention to the organisational and systemic levels of action. The journal positions school improvement as a fundamentally human endeavour and foregrounds the question of what schools are actually for, who they serve and for what purpose.We prioritise scholarship that critically examines how schools enact, reshape, or struggle with policy; how systems support or constrain meaningful organisational change; and how schoolwide initiatives take root within complex, context-specific educational ecologies.We are especially committed to research that centres the experiences, knowledge and voices of students, educators and communities, recognising their perspectives as fundamental to any understanding of how schools might improve in form and function. Although we welcome studies that examine how leadership approaches, collaborative endeavours, innovative practices, digitalisation, systems thinking and other structures that are reshaping schools and contributing to their improvement, we also encourage explicit engagement with questions relating to issues of equity, the human dimensions of organisational life and the ways in which schools can either reproduce or disrupt entrenched inequities.