Future Directions of Educational Change brings together timely discussions on social justice, professional capital, and systems change from some of the leading scholars in the field of education. Engaging in theory and evidence-based debates covering issues such as literacy education, whole system reform, and teacher leadership, this volume argues that quality and equity are equally important in reshaping existing education systems both within the United States and globally. The authors offer contextual analyses of current educational research and practice while looking toward the future and offering thought-provoking arguments for challenging and rectifying the systemic inequalities within education today.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: The Many Future Directions of Educational Change -- I Social Justice -- 2 Social Justice: Section Introduction -- 3 In the Pursuit of Freedom and Social ...
The New Imperatives of Educational Change is a clarion call to move beyond the standardized testing and marketplace competition that have become pervasive in school systems to focus instead on creating the conditions that will encourage all ...
This timely book provides a systematic overview and critique of contemporary approaches to educational change from some of the best-known writers and scholars in the field, including Andy Hargreaves, Larry Cuban, Ivor Goodson, Jeannie Oakes ...
Although this book acknowledges the importance of learning from our past, it also highlights a key deficiency that has consistently compromised these efforts.
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This book analyzes three previous major change efforts, outlines their strengths and limitations, and offers a successful and sustainable fourth way to integrate teacher professionalism, community engagement, government policy, and ...
This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation ...
Our heartfulness can then explode on the scene. Our character strengths and virtues can be unleashed. We don't just think and feel from strength. We act from strength – for the betterment of others. This is the heartful way.
This compilation also examines international students' learning experiences in Finnish comprehensive school through a study based on the observation portfolios of 23 international student teachers during the first term of their ...
Many of these writers, whose chapters have been specially written for these books, have been investigating, helping initiate and implementing educational change, for most or all of their lengthy careers.