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Dr. Gábor Halász is doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is professor of education at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University Eötvös Loránd in Budapest where he is leading a Centre for Higher Educational Management. He teaches, among others, education policy, education and European integration and global trends in education. He is the former Director-General of the National Institute for Public Education in Budapest (now Institute for Educational Research and Development) where he is now scientific advisor. His research fields are education policy and administration, comparative and international education, educational research and innovation and the theory of education systems. As an education policy expert, he took an active part in Hungary’s educational-change process in the 1990s. Dr. Halász is one of the founders of the Hungarian School for Education Management, an institution emerged from Dutch Hungarian cooperation and formally established in 1998. Since then he has been the president of the Board of this Institute. In this institutional framework and also elsewhere he actively participates in the professional training of Hungarian school leaders. As a policy adviser he has taken an active part in the process education reform in Hungary since 1989. Dr. Halász has worked as an expert consultant for a number of international organizations, particularly OECD, the European Commission, the World Bank, and the Council of Europe. Since 1996 he has been representing Hungary in the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of OECD, between 2004 and 2007 he was the president of this Board.
School leadership and pupil learning outcomes - download pdf
For more information see Gábor Halász’ personal homepage:
http://halaszg.ofi.hu/English_index.html
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Prof. dr. P.J.C. Sleegers
Dr. Sleegers is Professor of Educational Organization and Management at the University of Twente. Dr. Sleegers has published extensively on leadership, innovation and educational policy in more than 40 referred journal articles and several edited books. Current research projects are studies into the effects of educational leadership on student motivation for school, longitudinal research into sustainability of reforms and design studies into professional learning communities.
School improvement over time. Changing teaching practices: what matters? - download pdf