Ebook: The roots of educational change

Introduction. Preface. Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches. I. The Roots. World War II and Schools. Finding Keys to School Change: A 40-Year Odyssey. Listening and Learning From the Field: Tales of Policy Implementation and Situated Practice. The Vital Hours: Reflecting on Research on Schools and their Effects. A Kind of Educational Idealism: Integrating Realism and Reform. School-Based Curriculum Development. Unfinished Work: Reflections on Schoolteacher. Seduced and Abandoned: Some Lasting Conclusions about Planned Change from the Cambire School Study. Ecological Images of Change: Limits and Possibilities. Three Perspectives on School Reform. The Meaning of Educational Change: A Quarter of a Century of Learning. II. Expanding the Dialogue. Patterns of Curriculum Change. Change and Tradition in Education: The Loss of Community. Educational Reform, Modernity and Pragmatism