| Description |
xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Educational change and development series |
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Educational change and development series.
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| Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- Teaching and leading on the sharp edge of change / Nina Bascia and Andy Hargreaves -- Part II. Courses of change -- The attrition of educational change over time : the case of innovative, model, Lighthouse schools / Dean Fink -- Leadership succession, cultures of teaching and educational change / Robert B. Macmillan -- Change agentry and the quest for equity : lessons from detracking schools / Jeannie Oakes ... [et al.] -- Changing classroom assessment : teachers' struggles / Lorna Earl and Steven Katz -- The impact of mandated change on teachers / Beverley Bailey -- Part III. Contexts of change -- Gender politics in school reform / Amanda Datnow -- In the margins : the work of racial minority immigrant teachers / Nina Bascia and Dennis Theissen -- Changing schools in a changing world / Benjamin Levin and J. Anthony Riffel -- Part IV. Prospects for change -- Inside-outside change facilitation : structural and cultural considerations / Wayne Seller and Lynne Hannay -- Professionals and parents : a social movement for educational change? / Andy Hargreaves |
| Summary |
The Sharp Edge of Educational Change conveys the realities of reform as they affect educators practice. The collected chapters each focus on particular, current reform and reveals the technical and logistical complications, social and political dynamics, cognitive disjunctures and limitations and emotional demands of reform |
| Notes |
Series editors: Andy Hargreaves and Ivor Goodson |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Educational change -- Canada.
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Educational change -- United States.
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School improvement programs -- Canada.
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School improvement programs -- United States.
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| Author |
Bascia, Nina.
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Hargreaves, Andy.
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| LC no. |
00036634 |
| ISBN |
0750708646 (paperback) |
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0750708654 |
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