The Sharp Edge of Educational Change: Teaching, Leading and the Realities of Reform

by Bascia,Nina; Bascia,Nina

• ISBN13: 9780750708654
• ISBN10: 0750708654
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-02
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

The Sharp Edge of Educational Changeconveys 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
The Editors	viii
List of Contributors	ix
I Introduction	1	(26)
Teaching and Leading on the Sharp Edge of Change	3	(24)
Nina Bascia
Andy Hargreaves
II Courses of Change	27	(102)
The Attrition of Educational Change over Time: The Case of ``Innovative,'' ``Model,'' ``Lighthouse'' Schools	29	(23)
Dean Fink
Leadership Succession, Cultures of Teaching and Educational Change	52	(20)
Robert B. Macmillan
Change Agentry and the Quest for Equity: Lessons from Detracking Schools	72	(25)
Jeanne Oakes
Amy Stuart Wells
Susan Yonezawa
Karen Ray
Changing Classroom Assessment: Teachers' Struggles	97	(15)
Lorna Earl
Steven Katz
The Impact of Mandated Change on Teachers	112	(17)
Beverley Bailey
III Contexts of Change	129	(66)
Gender Politics in School Reform	131	(25)
Amanda Datnow
In the Margins: The Work of Racial Minority Immigrant Teachers	156	(22)
Nina Bascia
Dennis Thiessen
Changing Schools in a Changing World	178	(17)
Benjamin Levin
J. Anthony Riffel
IV Prospects for Change	195	(41)
Inside--Outside Change Facilitation: Structural and Cultural Considerations	197	(20)
Wayne Seller
Lynne Hannay
Professionals and Parents: A Social Movement for Educational Change?	217	(19)
Andy Hargreaves
Index	236