The roots of educational change

Part of the ""International Handbook of Educational Change"", this volume deals with issues, such as educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. It is useful for school leaders, system administration, teacher...

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Other Authors: Lieberman, Ann., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2005.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2005]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations.
Series: International handbook of educational change (2005 ed.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field of Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches
  • Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field of Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches
  • The Roots
  • World War II and Schools
  • Finding Keys to School Change: A 40-Year Odyssey
  • Listening and Learning from the Field: Tales of Policy Implementation and Situated Practice
  • The Vital Hours: Reflecting on Research on Schools and their Effects
  • A Kind of Educational Idealism: Integrating Realism and Reform
  • School-Based Curriculum Development
  • Unfinished Work: Reflections on Schoolteacher
  • Seduced and Abandoned: Some Lasting Conclusions about Planned Change from the Cambire School Study
  • Ecological Images of Change: Limits and Possibilities
  • Three Perspectives on School Reform
  • The Meaning of Educational Change: A Quarter of a Century of Learning
  • Expanding the Dialogue
  • Patterns of Curriculum Change
  • Change and Tradition in Education: The Loss of Community
  • Educational Reform, Modernity, and Pragmatism.