Images of Educational Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-335-23048-8
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

This important book takes a fresh look at educational change - a concept which is in frequent use but rarely examined for the variety of meanings it conveys. It brings together the ideas of major educational change theorists from three continents, and invites the reader to explore the idea of educational change at a number of levels and from a variety of perspectives.

There is much talk about the pace of social change in, and the growing complexity of, industrial societies. In this book a number of well-known international researchers attempt to analyse the meaning of contemporary social change for education.

Particular emphasis is given to the implications for:

* the personal and social development of students
* schools as organizations
* the school curriculum
* the teaching profession
* educational policy formation
* education research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altrichter, Herbert

Elliot, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Educational change and policy formation
Economic change, educational policy formation and the role of the state
How education became nobody's business
Developing under developing circumstances
the personal and social development of students and the process of schooling
The relationship between social and educational change
Community, school change and strategic networking
Social change and the individual
changing patterns of community and the challenge for schooling
Social change, subject matter - and the teacher
Conceptualisng school change processes
Changing school cultures
Some elements of a micro-political theory of school development
Changing conceptions of action research
Preparing teachers for a creative engagement with educational change
Reflective education and school culture socialization of student teachers
Case study and case records
a conversation about the Hathaway project
Experts of the future
Teacher control and the reform of professional development
Overview chapter: Towards a synoptic vision of educational change in advanced industrial societies
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert Altrichter is Professor of Education and Head of Department at the University of Linz, Austria. He is author of Teachers Investigate their Work (Routledge 1993).

John Elliott is Professor of Education in the Centre for Applied Research in Education at the University of East Anglia. He is author of Action Research for Educational Change (Open University Press 1991) and The Curriculum Experiment (Open University Press 1997).