Ebook: Stability and Change: Innovation in an Educational Context
- Tags: Mechanics
- Series: Environment Development and Public Policy
- Year: 1981
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Nearly a century ago, Emile Durkheim founded the sociology of educa tion on the French cultural and structural premise that the function of educators is to transmit culture from one generation to the next. The clarity of his vision was aided by the era, the place, and the actors in the learning environment. His was an era when the relatively seamless web of western culture, although ripping and straining, was still intact. The place, post-Napoleonic France, was vertically stratified and elaborately structured. And the teachers had reason to think they were agents of authority, whereas most students, during school hours at least, behaved as if they were the objects of that authority. Underlying the very notion of a sociology of education, then, was a visible and pervasive aura of a system and order that was culturally prescribed. Scholars of American education have yearned for such systems before and since Durkheim. Every European and English model has been emulated in a more or less winsome manner, from the Boston Latin School of the 1700s to the Open Education programs of the 1960s. In the last quarter century of research, it has begun to dawn on us, however, that no matter how hard American educators try, they do not build a system.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
The Research Context....Pages 21-47
Methodology and Research Procedures....Pages 49-65
On the Brink of Change....Pages 67-94
The Beginning of Change....Pages 95-125
The Implementation of Planned Change in Schools....Pages 127-152
Further Exploration of Implementation in Schools....Pages 153-193
Comprehensive Change at the District Level....Pages 195-220
The Continuation of Change....Pages 221-247
Conclusions and Implications....Pages 249-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-352
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
The Research Context....Pages 21-47
Methodology and Research Procedures....Pages 49-65
On the Brink of Change....Pages 67-94
The Beginning of Change....Pages 95-125
The Implementation of Planned Change in Schools....Pages 127-152
Further Exploration of Implementation in Schools....Pages 153-193
Comprehensive Change at the District Level....Pages 195-220
The Continuation of Change....Pages 221-247
Conclusions and Implications....Pages 249-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-352
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