Changing Practices, Changing Education

ISBN-13: 9789811011757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 278 str.

Stephen Kemmis; Jane Wilkinson; Christine Edwards-Groves

Opis

Arguing that transforming education requires more than professional development of teachers, this study shows how changing education for the better also requires complementary systemic transformations in cultural, resourcing, and political frameworks.

Spis treści

1.   Education: The need for revitalisation
Introduction
A new view of practices
Practices as formed in intersubjective spaces: semantic, material and social
   Changing practices requires transforming intersubjective spaces
A guiding question
The organisation of the book
The study
   Philosophical empirical inquiry
   The case studies
   Analysis
Conclusion
References

2.   Praxis, practice and practice architectures
Introduction
Praxis
Practice
   Language games, activities and practices
The theory of practice architectures
   Site ontologies
Conclusion
References

3.   Ecologies of practices
Introduction
Critiquing the notion of ‘ecologies of practice’
Ecologies of practices as ‘living’ systems
Ecologies of practices in the Education Complex
Concluding comments
References

4.   Student Learning: Learning practices
Introduction
Learning as initiation into practices
   Learning how to go on in practices: A Wittgensteinian view of learning
   Learning as being ‘stirred in’ to practices
Practice architectures and the practice of learning
   Sarah’s lesson: What did the students learn about and through writing expository texts?
   Annie’s moving diagram: Tracing a learning journey over time
   Analysis: Annie’s moving diagram
Practices of learning in ecologies of practices
   Student learning and teaching
   Student learning and professional learning
   Learning and leading
   Student learning and researching
Practices of learning and site based education development
Conclusion
References

5.   Teaching: Initiation into practices
Introduction
Practice architectures of teaching at Hillview
   Practice architectures of an inquiry approach to teaching
   Practice architectures of teaching at Hillview: An inquiry approach in Kindergarten
Practice architectures of teaching at Southwood: The community garden
Teaching practices in ecologies of practices
Practices of teaching and site based education development
Conclusion
References

6.   Professional learning as practice development
Introduction
Projects in professional learning for practice development
The practice architectures of professional learning as practice development
   Cultivating a culture of care and collaboration
   Exercising agentic collegial responsibility
   Deprivatising practice
Professional learning in ecologies of practices
   Connections between professional learning and teaching, leading and researching practices
Professional learning and site based education development
Conclusions
References

7.   Practising leading
Introduction
Practices architectures of leading
   Staff meetings as an intersubjective space for enabling practice development
   Site based leading practices
   Students’ leading practices
   Systemic leading practices
Site based leading: Leading practices in ecologies of practices
Conclusion
References

8.   Researching as a practice-changing practice
Introduction
Site based projects of researching practice
Practice architectures that enable researching practice: Northton SchoolPractice architectures that enable researching practice: Westville
Practice architectures that enable researching practice: Hillview School
Researching in ecologies of practices
   Ecological connections between the practices of researching, critically reflecting and evaluating
   The practices of researching shaping leading practices
   Researching (critically reflecting and evaluating) for- and as-professional learning
   Researching shaping changes to teaching practices
   Researching to improve student learning practices
Site based education development: Practices of researching fostering a praxis orientation
References

9.   Revitalising Education: Site based education development
Introduction
Some key findings
Site based educational development
What is site based education development?
Site based educational development in ecologies of practice
Site based education development: conclusions
References

Appendix:  Analysing practices using the theories of practice architectures and ecologies of practices: An example
Analysing practices using the practice architectures framework
Some notes about analysing social life using the theory of practice architectures
   A caveat
Transcript and analysis: Sarah’s lesson on expository text with a Year 5-6 class
   Episode 1: Introduction to the lesson: Review of past lessons on the topic
   Analysis of Episode 1
   Episode 2: Preparation for the task for this lesson: Writing an expository text
   Analysis: Episode 2
   Episode 3: Introducing the group task of writing an expository text
   Analysis: Episode 3
   Episode 4: Students work in groups to draft an expository text
   Analysis: Episode 4
   Episode 5: Representatives of groups report on their draft expository texts
   Analysis: Episode 5
Analysing practices using the theory of ecologies of practices
   Ecologies of practice evident or implied in Sarah’s lesson
Conclusion

References

Index

Blurb

 This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how transformations of educational practice depend on complementary transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational cultures, resourcing and politics. It argues that transforming education requires more than professional development to transform teachers; it also calls for fundamental changes in learning and leading practices, which in turn means reshaping organisations that support teachers and teaching – organisational cultures, the resources organisations provide and distribute, and the relationships that connect people with one another in organisations. The book is based on findings from research conducted by the authors – the research team for the (2010-2012) Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project Leading and Learning: Developing Ecologies of Educational Practice.

The book provides an introduction to new contributions to practice theory: the theory of practice architectures (what practices are composed of) and the theory of ecologies of practices (how practices relate to one another). Among other examples of practices of learning, teaching, professional learning, leading and researching, the book provides a detailed analysis of a classroom lesson to demonstrate how the theories can be used in the analysis and interpretation of empirical material: practices and the conditions that form and are formed by them.