From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education

ISBN-13: 9781612506692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Jack Schneider;Larry Cuban

Opis

Why do so many promising ideas generated by education research fail to penetrate the world of classroom practice?

In From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, education historian Jack Schneider seeks to answer this familiar and vexing question by turning it on its head. He looks at four well-known ideas that emerged from the world of scholarship Bloom s Taxonomy, multiple intelligences, the project method, and direct instruction and asks what we can learn from their success in influencing teachers.

Schneider identifies four key factors that help bridge the gap between research and practice: perceived significance, philosophical compatibility, occupational realism, and transportability. Through the examination of counterexamples similar ideas of equal promise that lacked these four qualities and did not translate into practice Schneider shows the complexity of the relationship between theory and practice in education and suggests how that tenuous connection might be strengthened to help innovations and new insights gain traction in our schools."

Spis treści

CONTENTS

FOREWARD vii
INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER ONE
“I Have Heard the Phrase Quite a Bit” 15
Bloom’s Taxonomy

CHAPTER TWO
Theory of Many Uses 51
Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

CHAPTER THREE
“Wholehearted Purposeful Activity” 79
The Project Method

CHAPTER FOUR
Lessons of Last Resort 109
Direct Instruction

CHAPTER FIVE
“Less of an Impact on the Educational World” 141
Ideas Without a Foothold

CONCLUSION
What Do We Know and What Might We Do? 183

EPILOGUE
A Consensus Agenda 209

NOTES 211
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 247
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 249
INDEX 251