Chris’s involvement with Routledge goes back to his time at Nottingham when he co-authored Effective Leadership for School Improvement with members of the Centre for Teacher and School Development in 2003. Since then Chris has published in a range of Taylor and Francis journals. He is on the editorial boards of a number of journals including School Effectiveness and School Improvement and Professional Development in Education and took over as Editor of School Leadership and Management in 2010.
Chris has also authored and edited several books including Leading School-Based Networks (with Hadfield, 2009) and Radical Reforms (with Gunter, 2009). He also has a number of upcoming books with Routledge. These include two authored books High-Leverage Leadership (with Mongon, December 2011) and Rethinking Schools (2012) and an edited volume with based on a recent ESRC Seminar Series School Effectiveness and Improvement Research, Policy and Practice: Challenging the orthodoxy? (Armstrong, Harris, Muijs, Reynolds and Sammons, 2011).
Chris’s recent research has been funded by a range of sponsors including the Department for Education, National College for School Leadership, National Union of Teachers and Economic and Social Research Council and much of it has focused on school improvement and organizational development in challenging contexts. His most recent work has included: explorations of successful leadership for white working class pupils; the emergence of new models of leadership, management and governance in academies, trusts and federations and the impact of federations on student outcomes. Chris has also just completed a two-year national evaluation of the Extra Mile initiative for Department for Education.
Chris continues to work in partnership with schools to explore and develop new approaches to school improvement with teachers and school leaders. This participative approach to research and development is rooted in his thinking that researchers should work with schools to develop context specific solutions to the issues and challenges they face.
Chris’s research interests can be traced back to his experiences of working in challenging Birmingham schools. Put simply, he is committed to enhancing understanding about relationship between student achievement and socio-economic achievement disadvantage and working with schools and the wider system to improve outcomes and ultimately life chances for these young people.
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Improved Educational Outcomes for All?
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Improving educational systems around the world remains at the core of governments’ agendas. However, despite vast investment of resources and sustained periods of interventions many systems have seen their rates of improvement plateau and in some systems the gap between different groups of...
To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Challenging the orthodoxy?
Edited by Christopher Chapman, Paul Armstrong, Alma Harris, Daniel Muijs, David Reynolds, Pam Sammons
This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement. It charts the development theory and research in this area and looks at the contribution made to policy and practice. It also challenges some assumptions that have become ingrained into the theoretical and...
Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
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Improving outcomes in educational settings
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Globalisation of world trade, international media, technological innovation and social change are creating opportunities and challenges that today’s pupils will inherit and build on. A pupil’s academic, technical and social capacity will define their success or failure. Therefore, educational...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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By Mark Hadfield, Christopher Chapman
The persistent challenge of achieving excellence and equity within education systems has renewed interest in generating context-specific solutions through localised school networks. But how can successful school networks be developed?
Based around the lifecycle of a network, this book&...
Published March 23rd 2009 by Routledge
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Perspectives on an era of educational change
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This book draws on the lessons from one of the most intensive periods of educational reform in any country during recent times. The post-1997 English experience, under a New Labour government, is used to illustrate the opportunities and challenges associated with attempting to develop a world class...
Published December 7th 2008 by Routledge
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