The Dark Side of School Reform Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia

by Brooks, Dr. Jeffrey S.

• ISBN13: 9781578863051
• ISBN10: 1578863058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-14
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change and offers insights that might help committed professionals better serve the needs of students as they seek to implement their own reforms in the ever-shifting organizations public schools have become.

Author Biography

Jeffrey S. Brooks is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida State University

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Harry F. Wolcott
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Exploring the Dark Side of School Reform	xv
Theschooldayisfastandtheschoolyearisfaster!	1	(20)
Add Duties, Add Responsibilities, Add Rigmarole	21	(12)
Teaching as an Everyday Ambiguity: Who Is Doing What, Where, When, Why, and How?	33	(18)
The ``Old Guard'' versus the ``New Way''	51	(18)
Snake Charmers in the Star Chamber	69	(14)
Strangers in a Strange School: Isolated Instructors, Divided Departments, Fractured Faculty	83	(16)
There's No ``I'' in the Word ``School''	99	(16)
Distraction + Disorientation = Disaffection	115	(14)
Leading with Smoke and Mirrors: Of Misty Missions, Vague Values, and Floating Philosophies	129	(18)
Coda or Refrain? Reforming Again and Again and Again and Again . . .	147	(6)
Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia	153	(28)
Methodological Appendix	181	(4)
References	185	(10)
Index	195	(4)
About the Author	199