Social Geographies Of Educational Change

by Hernandez, F.; Goodson, Ivor F.

• ISBN13: 9781402024948
• ISBN10: 1402024940
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-31
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Social Geographies, as spatial location, is a factor relevant to understanding the variety of people's interpretations and appropriations of educational innovations and changes. Their location in the social space also influences their response to change. In the field of educational change, social space means for example, skin colour, gender distribution of teachers in one school, children's self-cultural representations or parents' religious attitudes. By using the notion of Social Geographies in the context of educational change, the authors address the following questions: How initiatives in a classroom or department are influenced by the surrounding context of the school, the district or the nation; How innovation spreads or diffuses from one school to another; How and whether reforms can be scaled up from a few schools to a whole system; How seemingly standardised reforms affect schools differently depending on where they are located; How schools influence one another; How the identities of, and interrelationships among, schools are affected by technology, principles of market competition and choice, and other initiatives. This volume is relevant to educationalists, policy-makers, teachers, and students interested in a more complex approach to understand and intervene in educational change processes.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction
Social Geographies of Educational Change: Drawing a Map for Curious and Dissatisfied Travellers
FERNANDO HERNÁNDEZ & IVOR F. GOODSON	xi
Part 1. Educational change: from the analysis of conditions of achieving to the relevance of personal biographies
Accomplishing Large Scale Reform: A Tri-Level Proposition
MICHAEL FULLAN, CAROL ROLHEISER, BLAIR MASCALL & KAREN EDGE	1	(14)
Understanding Curriculum Change: Some Warnings about Restructuring Initiatives
IVOR F. GOODSON	15	(14)
Part 2. Beyond School Walls: creating networks in education
Social Networks in Teaching
JORGE ÁVILA DE LIMA	29	(18)
The Work of the National Writing Project: Social Practices in a Network Context
ANN LIEBERMAN & DIANE WOOD	47	(18)
Networks of Schools and Constructing Citizenship in Secondary Education
WIEL VEUGELERS & HENK ZIJLSTRA	65	(14)
Part 3. Gazes on education protagonists
Cultures of Schooling. No Place for Women?
NIEVES BLANCO	79	(12)
Mapping Visual Cultural Narratives to Explore Adolescents' Identities
FERNANDO HERNÁNDEZ	91	(12)
The Parent Gap: The Emotional Geographies of Teacher-Parent Relationships
ANDY HARGREAVES & SUE LASKY	103	(20)
Part 4. Looking Technology from the other Side of the Mirror
The Merger of ICT and Education: Should It Necessarily Be an Exercise in the Eternal Recurrence of the Reinvention of the Wheel?
AHARON AVIRAM & DEBORAH TALMI	123	(20)
Virtual Geographies of Educational Change: The More Complex the Problems the Simpler the Answers
JUANA M. SANCHO	143	(26)
Author Index	169