International Handbook of Educational Change: Part One

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-20
World War II and Schools....Pages 23-36
Finding Keys to School Change: A 40-Year Odyssey....Pages 37-69
Listening and Learning from the Field: Tales of Policy Implementation and Situated Practice....Pages 70-84
The Vital Hours: Reflecting on Research on Schools and their Effects....Pages 85-99
A Kind of Educational Idealism: Integrating Realism and Reform....Pages 100-120
School-Based Curriculum Development....Pages 121-144
Unfinished Work: Reflections on Schoolteacher....Pages 145-162
Seduced and Abandoned: Some Lasting Conclusions about Planned Change from the Cambire School Study....Pages 163-180
Ecological Images of Change: Limits and Possibilities....Pages 181-197
Three Perspectives on School Reform....Pages 198-213
The Meaning of Educational Change: A Quarter of a Century of Learning....Pages 214-228
Patterns of Curriculum Change....Pages 231-241
Change and Tradition in Education: The Loss of Community....Pages 242-260
Educational Reform, Modernity, and Pragmatism....Pages 261-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-294
Educational Change: Easier Said Than Done....Pages 297-321
Globalization and Educational Change....Pages 322-348
Markets, Choices and Educational Change....Pages 349-374
New Information Technologies and the Ambiguous Future of Schooling — Some Possible Scenarios....Pages 375-395
Public Education in a Corporate-Dominated Culture....Pages 396-417
Front Matter....Pages 279-294
Cultural Difference and Educational Change in a Sociopolitical Context....Pages 418-439
Language Issues and Educational Change....Pages 440-459
The Politics of Gender and Educational Change: Managing Gender or Changing Gender Relations?....Pages 460-481
School-Family-Community Partnerships and Educational Change: International Perspectives....Pages 482-502
Restructuring and Renewal: Capturing the Power of Democracy....Pages 505-528
Redefining Teachers, Reculturing Schools: Connections, Commitments and Challenges....Pages 529-543
The Micropolitics of Educational Change....Pages 544-557
The Emotions of Teaching and Educational Change....Pages 558-575
Organization, Market and Community as Strategies for Change: What Works Best for Deep Changes in Schools....Pages 576-595
Authenticity and Educational Change....Pages 596-615
Organizational Learning and Educational Change....Pages 616-641
Policy and Change: Getting Beyond Bureaucracy....Pages 642-667
Front Matter....Pages 669-672
Beyond Bloom’s Taxonomy: Rethinking Knowledge for the Knowledge Age....Pages 675-692
Human Development in the Learning Society....Pages 693-709
Educational Reform Networks: Changes in the Forms of Reform....Pages 710-729
Educational Change in Japan: School Reforms....Pages 730-742
National Strategies for Educational Reform: Lessons from the British Experience Since 1988....Pages 743-767
Quality in Schools: Developing a Model for School Improvement....Pages 768-789
School Administration In Russia: Centralization Versus Decentralization....Pages 790-804
Accelerated Schools: A Decade of Evolution....Pages 807-830
Front Matter....Pages 669-672
Systemic Reform in a Federal System: The National Schools Project....Pages 831-854
Large-Scale Change: The Comer Perspective....Pages 855-876
New Roles for Community Services in Educational Reform....Pages 877-892
Teacher Unions and Educational Reform....Pages 895-915
Teacher Development and Educational Reform....Pages 916-951
Norms and Politics of Equity-Minded Change: Researching the “Zone of Mediation”....Pages 952-975
Restructuring Schools for Improving Teaching....Pages 976-1005
Teaching Standards: Foundations for Professional Development Reform....Pages 1006-1031
Front Matter....Pages 1033-1055
Developing the Twenty-First Century School: A Challenge to Reformers....Pages 1059-1073
Reconnecting Knowledge Utilization and School Improvement: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back....Pages 1074-1095
The School Effectiveness Knowledge Base as a Guide for School Improvement....Pages 1096-1115
School Evaluation and Improvement: A Scandinavian View....Pages 1119-1134
Quality Assurance Reviews as a Catalyst for School Improvement in Australia....Pages 1135-1162
Assessment and Accountability in Kentucky: How High Stakes Affects Teaching and Learning....Pages 1163-1178
Innovations in Planning for School Improvement: Problems and Potential....Pages 1181-1202
Curriculum Reform, Educational Change and School Improvement....Pages 1203-1215
The Conduct of Inquiry on Teaching: The Search for Models more Effective than the Recitation....Pages 1216-1241
Three Rival Versions and a Critique of Teacher Staff Development....Pages 1242-1256
Why Teachers need their Colleagues: A Developmental Perspective....Pages 1257-1271
“World Class” School Improvement: An Analysis of the Implications of Recent International School Effectiveness and School Improvement Research for Improvement Practice....Pages 1275-1285
Front Matter....Pages 1033-1055
“Inside-Out” and “Outside-In”: Learning from Past and Present School Improvement Paradigms....Pages 1286-1298
Sand, Bricks, and Seeds: School Change Strategies and Readiness for Reform....Pages 1299-1313
Using “Promising Programs” to Improve Educational Processes and Student Outcomes....Pages 1314-1338
Back Matter....Pages 1339-1367