Social Geographies of Educational Change

ISBN-13: 9781402024948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 173 str.

F. Hernandez; I. F. Goodson

Opis

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."

Spis treści

List of Contributors. Introduction. Geographies of Educational Change: Drawing a map for curious and unsatisfied travellers; Fernando Hernández and Ivor F. Goodson. 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 and Karen Edge. Understanding Curriculum Change: Some Warnings about Restructuring Initiatives; Ivor F. Goodson. Part 2. Beyond School Walls: creating networks in education. Social Networks in Teaching; Jorge Ávila De Lima. The Work of the National Writing Project: social practices in a network context; Ann Lieberman and Diane Wood. Networks of Schools and Constructing Citizenship in Secondary Education; Wiel Veugelers and Henk Zijlstra. Part 3. Gazes on education protagonists. Cultures of schooling. No place for women?; Nieves Blanco. Mapping Visual Cultural Narratives to explore Adolescents’ Identities; Fernando Hernández. The Parent Gap: The Emotional Geographies of Teacher-Parent Relationships; Andy Hargreaves and Sue Lasky. 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 and Deborah Talmi. Virtual Geographies of Educational Change: The more complex the problems the simpler the answers; Juana M. Sancho.