Reform In Primary Education

Author : Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030570392

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Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms by Fernando M. Reimers Pdf

This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of development. The study includes system level reforms in jurisdictions where students achieve high levels in international assessments of basic literacies, such as Singapore and Ontario, Canada, as well as in nations where students achieve much lower levels, such as Kenya, Mexico, Punjab-Pakistan and Zimbabwe. The chapters examine system-level reforms that focus on strengthening the capacity to teach the basics, as in Ontario and Pakistan, as well as reforms that aim at building the capacity to teach a much broader set of competencies and skills, such as Kenya, Mexico, Singapore and Zimbabwe. The volume includes systems at very different levels of spending per student and reforms at various points in the cycle of policy implementation, some just starting, some struggling to survive a governmental transition, and others that have been in place for an extended period of time. From the comparative study of these reforms, we aim to provide an understanding of how to build the capacity of education systems to teach 21st century skills at scale in diverse settings.

Author : David B. TYACK,Larry Cuban,David B Tyack
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674044524

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Tinkering toward Utopia by David B. TYACK,Larry Cuban,David B Tyack Pdf

For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have Americans come to believe that schooling has regressed? Have educational reforms occurred in cycles, and if so, why? Why has it been so difficult to change the basic institutional patterns of schooling? What actually happened when reformers tried to reinvent schooling? Tyack and Cuban argue that the ahistorical nature of most current reform proposals magnifies defects and understates the difficulty of changing the system. Policy talk has alternated between lamentation and overconfidence. The authors suggest that reformers today need to focus on ways to help teachers improve instruction from the inside out instead of decreeing change by remote control, and that reformers must also keep in mind the democratic purposes that guide public education.

Author : Ian Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000328370

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School Reform in an Era of Standardization by Ian Hardy Pdf

School Reform in an Era of Standardization explores how teachers and school-based administrators navigate the processes of accountability and standardization in schooling systems and settings. It provides clear insights into how the work and learning of teachers and students in schools have been dramatically reconstituted by increased pressures of external, political scrutiny and accountability. The book reveals in detail the nature and effects of standardization processes upon schools and schooling systems. Specifically, it shows how curriculum development, teaching and assessment practices have all been recalibrated under conditions of increased external scrutiny of teacher and student work and learning, and how such processes are manifest in curriculum dominated by attention to literacy and numeracy, more 'scripted' pedagogies and standardized testing. However, the research not only elaborates the detrimental effects of such processes, but also how those responsible for educating in schools – teachers, heads of curriculum, deputy-principals and principals – have responded proactively by interpreting, interrogating and challenging these conditions. In this way, it provides resources for hope – evidence of what are described as more ‘authentic accountabilities’ – and at the same time it provides a clear portrait of the difficulty of fostering substantive curriculum, teaching and assessment reform during an era of increasingly reductive accountability processes. It will be an invaluable resource for understanding and enhancing practices in schools and school systems in the decades to come, and for giving hope to educators in the ongoing work of rebuilding trust in public education.

Author : Bob Adamson,Tammy Kwan,Ka-ki Chan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789622095229

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Changing the Curriculum by Bob Adamson,Tammy Kwan,Ka-ki Chan Pdf

The Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) is arguably the most comprehensive, fundamental and controversial attempt to promote systemic curriculum reform in Hong Kong. It aimed at a radical change in the nature of knowledge, pedagogy and assessment in schools. After an initial phase of confusion and criticism, this ambitious reform was revamped and vigorously promoted, but within a few years, it totally lost momentum as other educational issues attracted the attention of policy-makers. This book traces the career of TOC and studies the impact of the reform on the education system, subjects, schools and teachers. Drawing on a four-year multi-level research project, the chapters provide a deep understanding of the complex nature of educational reform and how a new curriculum is interpreted, developed and implemented. Besides providing a fascinating portrayal of the experiences of the TOC reform, this book offers lessons for future curriculum change in Hong Kong and elsewhere. 'This', writes Ivor Goodson in the Foreword, 'is curriculum research at its best.'

Author : J. G. Hagmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015062746840

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Reform in Primary Education by J. G. Hagmann Pdf

Author : David Bridges
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781107452886

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Education Reform and Internationalisation by David Bridges Pdf

This collection presents new investigations into the role of heritage languages and the correlation between culture and language from a pedagogic and cosmopolitical point of view.

Author : Amanda Datnow,Lea Hubbard,Hugh Mehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134550722

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Extending Educational Reform by Amanda Datnow,Lea Hubbard,Hugh Mehan Pdf

In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores what happens when school reform 'goes to scale'. Topics covered include: *why and how schools are adopting reforms *the influence of the local context and wider constraints on the implementation of reform *teachers and principals as change agents in schools *the evolution of reform design teams *the implementation, sustainability and expiration of reform, and its impact on educational change Each chapter concludes with guidelines for policy and practice. This book will be of interest to educational leaders and staff developers, educational researchers and policy makers, in the US and internationally.

Author : Clementina Acedo,Don Adams,Simona Popa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460919510

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Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms by Clementina Acedo,Don Adams,Simona Popa Pdf

Quality and Qualities: Tensions in Education Reforms is a provocative call for understanding and further exploring the elusive concept of quality in education. Although education quality has acquired high priority in the past few decades, the multiplicity of conceptualizations of quality also reflects the concerns and foci of multiple stakeholders. Coming to an understanding of quality education involves careful analysis of the context from which any particular reform or program emerges and of the continuing struggle to define and achieve it. Two main questions persist: who benefits from particular policies focused on quality? And what are the potential tradeoffs between a focus on quality, equitable distribution of education, and inclusion of various traditional expectations? This book explores notions of quality as understood within various systems of national, formal, and nonformal education. Also it considers the tensions that arise with the introduction of new standardized notions of quality in relation to international measures and educational reforms in developing countries. In all cases, specific national issues and concerns compete with global agendas.Challenges to quality that are given particular attention in the book chapters include changing definitions of quality, high expectations for education and issues with implementation, and the introduction of English as a means to achieve quality in a globalizing world. Special attention is also given to possible actions that support a more equitable education without ignoring the requisite of quality. The final chapter suggests three models/choices for seeking higher quality and guiding the educational future of nations.

Author : Lea Ann Hubbard,Mary Kay Stein,Hugh Mehan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135925482

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Reform as Learning by Lea Ann Hubbard,Mary Kay Stein,Hugh Mehan Pdf

Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process - from leadership in the central office, to work with principals and teachers, to the impact on how teachers worked with students in the classroom. The authors draw on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, in order to identify, not only how teachers, principals and other district educators were shaped by the large-scale reforms, but also the ways in which the reform unfolded. In doing so, the book shows more broadly how actors throughout a school system can change the views of leaders and impact the larger reform process.

Author : Vivien Stewart
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781416613749

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A World-class Education by Vivien Stewart Pdf

Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing, innovation-based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart focuses on understanding what the world's best school systems are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools--at the national, state, and local level--might do differently and better.

Author : Robin Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135100438

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Policy and Practice in Primary Education by Robin Alexander Pdf

Detailed accounts of two influential initiatives of the 1990s, whose educational and political lessons remain highly relevant: systemic and pedagogic reform in one of Britain’s largest cities, and the controversial ‘three wise men’ government enquiry into primary teaching to which it led. Alexander's controversial and widely-read report on primary education in Leeds has now been revised as a major study of policy initiatives in primary education and their impact on practice. The book examines an ambitious programme of local reform aimed at improving teaching and learning in the primary schools of one of Britain's largest cities. It addresses important questions about children's needs, the curriculum, classroom practice and school management. When first published, Robin Alexander's report was hailed as `seminal' and `the most important document since Plowden' but it was also quoted and misquoted in support of widely opposed political and media agendas. This new edition retains Part I from the first edition, detailing the impact of Leeds LEA's programme for educational reform. However, it also provides a totally new and greatly extended Part II, which gives an insider's account of the sequel to the Leeds report - the government's 1992 'three wise men' report. There is also a new introduction.

Author : Michael Fullan,Suzanne Stiegelbauer
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0826449557

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The New Meaning of Educational Change by Michael Fullan,Suzanne Stiegelbauer Pdf

First published in 1982, this work revolutionized the theory and practice of education reform. Now 25 years later, the fourth edition of Fullans groundbreaking book continues to be the definitive compendium to all aspects of the management of educational change--a powerful resource for everyone involved in school reform.

Author : Andrew Pollard
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X002701040

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Changing English Primary Schools? by Andrew Pollard Pdf

Author : Patricia C. Gandara
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791443582

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The Dimensions of Time and the Challenge of School Reform by Patricia C. Gandara Pdf

Annotation. As the education reform movement matures into its second decade, it is clear that many promising efforts have fallen short in their attempts to create real school change. One reason for this is that the process of school reform is much more complex than most reformers realized or were willing to acknowledge. The Dimensions of Time and the Challenge of School Reform points to another problem--the problem of time--and its role in both the success and failure of school reform efforts. The importance of understanding the role that time plays in both learning and instruction and finding ways to provide time for teachers grappling with change and students learning to accommodate a new language and culture are important themes in this book. This book is directed to policymakers and practitioners as well as to academics in that it combines theory with the "real world" experiences of many who have been active in the school reform movement and who have learned, through trial and error, how to think about time in innovative ways. Book jacket.

Author : E. C. Wragg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134888979

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Primary Teaching Skills by E. C. Wragg Pdf

An enlightening and comprehensive guide to the skills required of today's primary teachers. Chapters cover explaining new topics, questioning, facing new classes and problems with supply teachers.