Education
The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform
Author: Seymour B. Sarason
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: UOM:39015018349186
Category: Education
Page: 216
View: 434
Sarason challenges educators to understand that to continue to struggle for 'power over' rather than 'power with' overlooks the mutual interest of all parties that will stifle any real progress in education reform. In a classroom utilizing effective teaching practices students would respond to the question, 'How do you rate this book?' with all thumbs up. ?Choice
Education
The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform
Author: Seymour Bernard Sarason
Publisher:
ISBN: 0608217085
Category: Education
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Education
The Skeptical Visionary
Author: Seymour Bernard Sarason
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1566399807
Category: Education
Page: 320
View: 819
Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is "one of America's seminal thinkers about public education." For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooling. As we go from debate to debate on issues such as school choice, charter schools, inclusive education, national standards, and other problems that seem to drag on without solution, Sarason's critical stance on the folly of many of our attempts to fix schools has always had at the center a concern for the main players in our educational institutions: the students, the teachers and the parents. Any plans that cannot account for their well-being are doomed to failure. And in the face of such failure, the clarity of Sarason's vision for real educational success is a much-needed antidote to much of the rhetoric that currently passes for substantial debate. A wide-ranging and comprehensive selection of Sarason's most significant writings,The Skeptical Visionaryshould find a prized space on any student's or teacher's bookshelf. Author note:Robert Friedis Associate Professor in the School of Education at Northeastern University, and is the author ofThe Passionate Teacher: A Practical GuideandThe Passionate Learner: How Teachers and Parents Can Help Children Reclaim the Joy of Discovery.Seymour Sarasonis Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He is the author of over forty books and is considered to be one of the most significant researchers in education and educational psychology in the country.
Education
Productive Learning
Author: Stanislaw D. Glazek
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781483360072
Category: Education
Page: 280
View: 156
This unique resource promotes the creation of productive learning contexts, which allow students to bring all that they are to the learning process, as essential to successful educational reform.
Education
School
Author: Jeff Gregg
Publisher: Hamilton Books
ISBN: 9780761872047
Category: Education
Page: 255
View: 211
This book encourages readers to think about and discuss the purpose of education. It provides an opportunity to consider how the way in which purposes are framed has consequences for student-teacher relationships and teacher-administrator relationships. The author introduces a moral/ethical dimension into the consideration of purposes—Why would anyone do that to kids? This book suggests that failure to reflect on the purpose of education underlies the lack of impact of many education reform efforts. The author presents a fictional roundtable discussion of educational issues. The participants include teachers, school administrators, state politicians and bureaucrats, parents, community members, and business people.
Education
Letters to a Serious Education President
Author: Seymour B. Sarason
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 9781452222776
Category: Education
Page: 177
View: 613
In this second edition of his original insightful collection of letters to the first president of the 21st century, Seymour B. Sarason details how to rethink school reform.
Education
Parental Involvement and the Political Principle
Author: Seymour B. Sarason
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN: UOM:39015033330690
Category: Education
Page: 180
View: 243
"Sarason's searching analysis of American school governance raises what may be the most fundamental questions confronting school reform: Who participates? Who decides? On what basis? His answers strike to the heardt of democratic life and create new possibilities for democratic education. Sarason pushes us to look beyond the bureaucracy-- to invent inclusive forms of schooling that engage the minds, hearts, and voices of parents, students, and teachers together. It is impossible to leave this book without a commitment to work toward an answer that will work for children." --Linda Darling-Hammond, Teachers College, Columbia University
Education
Educational Reform
Author: Seymour Bernard Sarason
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 9780807742433
Category: Education
Page: 305
View: 822
Professor Sarason candidly confronts his "errors of omission and commission, mistakes, and emphases" in his half-century involvement in educational reform. No other major figure in this arena has made public such a searching self-critique. Sharing his thoughts about the future of education, Sarason discusses his thinking on: charter schools, productive learning, motivation, high-stakes testing, the need for teachers to relate differently to each other and to parents, the importance of working through change, and the mistaken idea that we can clone reforms. Although written before the September 11th World Trade Center tragedy, the last chapter of this book is extraordinarily relevant to the subsequent national importance of societal values and responsible citizenship. Although this is a deliberately personally revealing book, Sarason's self-scrutiny will be stimulating and invaluable to anyone interested in reform as concept, action, and values.
Education
Dos & Don'ts of Education Reform
Author: Anthony M. Roselli
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 0820472603
Category: Education
Page: 180
View: 438
Dos & Don'ts of Education Reform is a unique critical study of legislated reform in the U.S. Resisting the temptation to make facile recommendations for future action, this book takes pointed aim at the failure of education reform. Roselli blames a narrow-minded focus on testing and accountability, advocating instead for an honest, morally-driven construction of theory and practice. He breaks new ground in this close, multidisciplinary examination of curriculum, instruction and assessment by demonstrating how to create the conditions for a successful school experience for all students: a sociocultural view of success and a strong desire to improve the human condition. This book is an excellent accompaniment to courses such as social foundations of education and critical issues in education, as well as those dealing with educational policy and leadership.
Education
World Educational Reforms
Author: Prem Lata Sharma
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 8176254851
Category: Education
Page: 388
View: 305
Education
Education Reform in Societies in Transition
Author: Jaya Earnest
Publisher: Sense Publishers
ISBN: 9789077874004
Category: Education
Page: 282
View: 234
Framed against the background of educational change, this book proposes to examine the relationship between curriculum change, teacher professional development, policy reform and the processes of educational change. The main aims of the book are to: (1) focus on educational changes and reconstruction in transitional societies that have undergone political, economic and social change in the past two decades, (2) provide a forum for the dissemination of research on education reconstruction and reform in transitional societies, (3) disseminate ideas that enhance both the practical and theoretical aspects of educational changes in these societies, (4) further knowledge and understanding of emerging trends and issues in education in these societies, (5) reflect the realities of educational scenarios in each transitional society. The book presents an in-depth exploration of educational reconstruction in 15 transitional societies. In each chapter, the authors have provided an overview of educational processes in the country, a distillation of education change or reform, and/or reconstruction in each transitional society. Collectively, the chapters in the book have attempted to contribute to a better understanding of the educational system in respective countries by identifying the challenges and obstacles, the policy implications, the teacher professional development needs and curriculum reform efforts.
Religion
Movements of Educational Reform
Author: David A. Escobar Arcay
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781498291088
Category: Religion
Page: 112
View: 656
In a public education world of vast, multiple, rapid, and often colliding educational reforms, Movements of Educational Reform provides the novice as well as the veteran educator and administrator a sort of map of educational changes and processes. Movements of Educational Reform is intended to help the devoted and dedicated education professional and scholar make sense of the successes and the pitfalls of reforms by tracing the landscape through four movements. Movements promises to ignite and energize your passion for leading educational reform and to bring awareness of system strategies and its structural and cultural aspects, many of which continue to challenge theorists, practitioners, and leaders of educational change.