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Educational reform in Singapore: from quantity to quality 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Pak Tee Ng 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2008,7(1):5-15
In 2004, Prime Minister Lee called teachers to “teach less” so that students might “learn more”. In 2005, the Ministry of
Education clarified this philosophical statement to mean transforming learning from quantity to quality—“more quality and
less quantity” in education. This is in line with the national vision of ‘Thinking Schools, Learning Nation’. This policy
initiative, which began in 2004, is set to change the fundamental nature of education in Singapore. This article discusses
this initiative, its major implications for schools in Singapore and the challenges to be addressed in the implementation
of the policy. In particular, the article discusses the issues of understanding an engaged learning paradigm, establishing
signposts for the shift from quantity to quality and the difficulties of system-wide transformation. The challenge for schools
is to go beyond the form of the initiative to bring real, substantial and sustainable educational change through this movement. 相似文献
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Dennis Shirley 《Journal of Educational Change》2011,12(2):131-139
Recent social policy reforms have sought to overcome the limitations of “First Way” strategies emphasizing the welfare state
and “Second Way” approaches advocating markets. Scholars and policymakers instead have begun to explore optimal synthesis
of the public and private sector in a new “Third Way” of leadership and change. According to one line of interpretation advanced
by Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley, however, the Third Way as developed in education has ushered in a new orthodoxy of
testing, accountability, and data-driven decision making. This new orthodoxy is said to distract educators from their true
moral purposes. Hence, Hargreaves and Shirley have called for a new “Fourth Way” of change that draws upon international best
practices in education. In this interpretive essay for a Festschrift issue of the Journal of Educational Change celebrating Andy Hargreaves’ 60th birthday, Dennis Shirley revisits Fourth Way change architecture to inquire after the appropriate
role of new technologies in classrooms and schools. He retrieves the concept of mindful teaching and learning from the Fourth
Way change model and illustrates how it can be used as a lens to adjudicate various interpretations of the appropriate role
of new technologies in schools. 相似文献
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Sylvia Rojas-Drummond Neil Mercer Ellen Dabrowski 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2001,16(2):179-196
Research in Mexican schools, drawing upon earlier research in the UK, has led to the development and use of a method for describing, comparing and evaluating the particular approaches and interactional strategies used by teachers and learners. Using this method, qualitative and quantitative comparisons are made to distinguish between teachers who use a conventional, formal, directive approach when teaching 5-year-old children mathematical skills (called the “Official” method) and those who use a more interactive, collaborative, supportive, “scaffolded” approach to teach similar classes of children (called the “High Scope” method). In an earlier study, we found more competent and independent problem-solving among High/Scope pupils than among their peers taught by the Official method. In the present study, discourse analysis and statistical analysis of the relative frequencies of types of teacher-pupil interaction in the classrooms of two “Official” teachers and two “High’ Scope” teachers are used to explain the improved problem-solving of the “High Scope” pupils. The findings support the view that by creating a more collaborative, scaffolded version of classroom education, teachers can more successfully enable children to develop their own problem-solving skills, learning strategies and curriculum-related understanding. The research also contributes to the development and implementation of methods for promoting a more effective style of teacher-learner interaction in the classroom. 相似文献
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Dr. Robert P. Engvall Ph.D. 《The Urban Review》1995,27(3):251-261
In these times of tight budgets and political intoleance for taxation, public schools, particularly urban public schools,
will continually have to look for ways in which to spend less while dealing with ever-increasing societal problems. While
the ability of schools to improve the overal “product” with less resources is highly suspect, this article addresses one way
in which spending less might actually improve school perfomance.
The best planners in the best schools should be the administration, techers, students, parents, and the comminitu at large,
and not outside esxperts hired to improve a school's “comprehensive” or “strategic” plan. By forcing the segments of the public
that have the largest stake in the educational outcomes of schools to work together to plan for the future, schools will improve
the efficacy of their staffs, their students, and allow parents the self-satisfaction of playing an important role in their
children's education. An improtant side effect of such a method may be an increasing awareness by the public of the difficulties
that schools face, and perhaps a better understanding of the important need for higher expenditures.
His research interests include professionalism, collective bargaining, and educational reform. His articles have appeared
inPeople and Education, and a recent article has been aceepted for publication in theJournal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector. 相似文献
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Dr. Pauline Lipman 《The Urban Review》1996,28(1):41-62
This article addresses the role of exemplary teachers of students of color in educational reform. Using an ethnographic study
of two urban junior high schools in the beginning stages of restructuring, I describe threeculturally relevant teachers who create empowering educational experiences for low-achieving African American students. Despite their exemplary
practice and their enthusiasm for educational change, thewisdom of practice of these teachers was largely discounted in the restructuring process. They were marginalized by ideological and political
contexts which suppressed racial issues and advocacy for African American students and which supported a deficit model of
low-achieving African American students. Restructuring fostered little examination of policies, practices, and beliefs which
tended to marginalize African American students. This research suggests that professional dialogue and collaboration are mediated
by teachers' ideologies and by relations of power in schools and communities. If exemplary teachers of children of color are
to influence educational change, reformers need to legitimize their knowledge and sponsor their leadership. Also, reforms
that benefit marginalized children of color may require the mobilization and participation of parents and communities of color
as well as their teacher-advocates.
Even though I'm not doing the Mentoring and Counseling Program any more, I can't reject them. They know I care about them.
They know when you're not pretending. You don't turn off realness. Paulette
I find them where they are. I say, “You've told stories. When you say, ‘The way I see it,’ that's point of view.” I just do
it like that. When kids believe you think they can learn, they will. Samuel
We have to challenge these students. When we don't give them an opportunity, we're taking something away from them. Helen 相似文献
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Kyle L. Peck 《TechTrends》1998,43(2):47-53
Conclusion I applaud ISTE, AASL, AECT, and the other organizations involved for tackling the “messy work” of developing standards for
the use of technology and information resources in schools. And, at the same time, I call for a “second generation” of standards
that define realistic expectations for teachers based on the subjects and levels they are called upon to teach. I propose
that professional organizations from each subject work with ISTE and AECT to complete this huge task, and I propose that we
consider as a “next step” the creation of a set of on-line learning experiences through which teachers can gain the identified
skills and knowledge by using the very technologies we’re hoping they’ll embrace in their own teaching.
There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do.” As far as educational technologies are concerned,
this is also true. For many, the goal seems to have been simply to “get more computers into the schools,” without much thought
about purpose. To return to Phil Schlechty’s metaphor, It’s generally been a brief and misguided “Ready” stage (occupied with
questions like “How many do we need?” “What type?” “Where?” and “How shall we connect them?”), followed by “Fire!” (the acquisition
and installation of equipment). What we need is: “Ready” (the creation of appropriate teams of people who will combine their
insights to plan for the district)... “Aim” (a series of discussions about what technologies can accomplish for schools and
the students they serve)... “Fire” (acquisition, installation, and professional development according to plan)... “Aim” (an
assessment of how well the technologies and related programs met the intended goals, and a new planning effort designed to
close the gap)... “Fire” (acquisition and implementation designed to eliminate the gap)... “Aim” (another gap assessment)...
“Fire” (another attempt to close gaps)..., And so on. 相似文献
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Filippo Camerota 《Science & Education》2006,15(2-4):323-334
This article explores the transmission of practical knowledge in the XV and XVI centuries. According to cosmographer Egnatio
Danti, optics and other mathematical sciences had “been banished” from the main philosophical schools of his period, and “the
little which remains to us is limited to some practical aspects learned from the mechanical artificers”. The “mechanical artificers”
were architects, painters and surveyors whose mathematical training constitutes the subject dealt with in this article. The
context of Danti’s remark was the letter to the “Accademici del Disegno” of Perugia which introduce his Italian translation
of Euclid’s Optics. After the great Medieval season of optical studies, in effect, this science progressed mainly through its practical applications,
especially through “that part of perspective which pertains to painting” (Piero della Francesca), and through the spread of
methods and instruments for measuring by sight. 相似文献
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Corrie Giles 《The Urban Review》2008,40(2):137-163
Historically, the progressive ideas of innovative schools have influenced the professional practice of North American educators
since the latter part of the 19th century. Indeed, since the beginning of an industrial society, and now with the birth of
globalization and a knowledge economy, there has been a need for public schools to sustain their capacity for innovative self-renewal.
Yet, much of the classic literature on change in schools leans implicitly towards overcoming resistance, or the building of
short-term capacity enhancements to implement specific reform mandates. Insufficient attention has been paid to understanding
the internal and external conditions that are necessary for all schools, particularly those in urban areas, to build and sustain
sufficient resilient capacity to self-renew as contextually specific challenges unfold and intersect over time. Building on
data from the 1970’s and 1980’s, this article focuses on the resiliency of two innovative and activist urban secondary schools
located in New York State and Ontario, Canada, during a decade of standardized educational reform (1990–2000). A picture of
rapid capacity derogation emerges as a result of the particularly inflexible forms of contextually indifferent standardized
reform imposed in the 1990’s. However, the data suggest that, although much eroded by the cumulative negative impact of socio-economic
and political forces over time, the resilient self-renewing capacity of these innovative schools, when coupled with teacher
activism, can delay, and even defeat, unwarranted standardization in a bid to ensure the survival of their progressive vision. 相似文献
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Joo-Ho Park 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2013,33(1):34-52
Many countries design and implement school change with a focus on the fundamental reconfiguration in the structures of schooling. In this article, we examined the relationship between principal leadership and teacher resistance to school reforms driven by external interveners. For an empirical analysis, we took advantage of extensive data derived from 967 teachers and 32 principals in Korean vocational high schools that are now experiencing school reforms launched by the government. Our results revealed the importance of human aspects of school changes and reforms, in particular, driven by the external intervener. We first showed that a principal's initiative leadership is significantly related to the reduction of teacher resistance to change, in particular on the emotional and behavioural dimensions. Not surprisingly, teachers showed a higher level of resistance when their schools participate in the government-driven reform. Finally, teacher resistance depended upon characteristics of teachers as well as principals. These findings provide some useful policy implications for facilitating successful school reform efforts. Foremost, school reformers are advised to rethink the school change model design in a way of fully capturing human aspects in the reform process. 相似文献
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Dr Rod Fawns 《Research in Science Education》1998,28(3):281-299
The dominance of “academicism” in science education can be shown over the last century. However in the period of this study,
when access to a universal secondary education was the main thrust of social reconstruction in Britain and Australia, a key
struggle was for a socially-centred general science. The struggle, concerned the terms on which “the spirit of Science alive
in the world”, could enter and transform education in schools to meet human needs. The epistemological arguments of the reformers
were pragmatic. This study, set initially in an earlier period of depressive capitalism, is an account of how curriculum and
cultural change was mediated by educational actors, employing pragmatic arguments for reform which drew on the metaphoric
power of a scientific achievements which emanated from their society, to pursue democratic agendas within their workplace
and locality. 相似文献
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This article focuses on exploring comprehensive school teachers’ professional agency in the context of the most recent school
reforms in Finland (i.e., developing undivided basic education). In this article, the emphasis is on analyzing the premises
on which teachers view themselves and their work in terms of developing their own school, catalyzed by the national school
reform. Teachers’ perceptions and the relation between their perceptions of the development work and their educational backgrounds
were empirically examined by means of essays entitled “Remembering the Future.” Results suggested that both teachers’ perceptions
of undivided basic education and their perceptions of themselves in the development process varied considerably. Further investigation
showed that teachers’ perceptions of the reform and of themselves within the reforms were interrelated. More specifically,
perceiving oneself as an active subject in the development work seemed to promote a holistic and functional perception of
the object of the development. On the basis of the results, it seems that as highly educated professionals, teachers were
very capable of identifying and analyzing what should be changed in schools and/or the school districts. However, a challenge
for the teachers’ active professional agency in educational reforms seems to be the lack of shared and informed assumptions
of how change can be brought about. 相似文献
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Jocelyn L. N. Wong 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2010,11(2):131-139
The concept of “professional learning community” (PLC) has been suggested as a tool to improve teachers’ professional competency
and students’ learning outcomes since the mid-1990s. In such a community, teachers can share their individual practices with
the aim of searching for “good practice” based on the outcome of collective inquiry. Such a learning process will result in
a reculturing of the school community by reshaping the existing values and cultures and resolving problems such as teacher
isolation and individualism. China already has a long tradition of teachers working and learning collaboratively, so investigating
collaborative efforts in this context may provide a view of how to contextualize professional development of teachers in schools.
This study attempts to access teachers’ lenses in order to explore their views on the effects of subject-based professional
learning activities. This also helps to explain how teachers work and openly share their practices aiming at improving their
professional competency and student learning outcomes within their communities. Also, factors influencing the sustainability
of a professional learning community will be discussed. 相似文献
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Individuals and Leadership in an Australian Secondary Science Department: A Qualitative Study 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Wayne Melville John Wallace Anthony Bartley 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(6):463-472
In this article, we consider the complex and dynamic inter-relationships between individual science teachers, the social space
of their work and their dispositions towards teacher leadership. Research into the representation of school science departments
through individual science teachers is scarce. We explore the representations of four individual teachers to the assertions
of teacher leadership proposed by Silva et al. (Teach Coll Rec, 102(4):779–804, 2000). These representations, expressed during
regular science department meetings, occur in the social space of Bourdieu’s “field” and are a reflection of the “game” of
science education being played within the department. This departmentally centred space suggests an important implication
when considering the relationship between subject departments and their schools. The development of an individual’s representation
of teacher leadership and the wider “field” of science education appears to shape the individual towards promoting their own
sense of identity as a teacher of science, rather than as a teacher within a school. Our work suggests that for these individuals,
the important “game” is science education, not school improvement. Consequently, the subject department may be a missing link
between efforts to improve schools and current organizational practices. 相似文献
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Brian M. McCadden 《The Urban Review》1996,28(4):335-345
Currently, education leaders and reformers from government, business, schools, universities, and communities are battling
to “fix” what was discovered to be “broken” in 1983, when theNation at Risk report was first published. Many of these reform leaders warn us to beware of reform fads. Fads are seen as curricular or
organizational movements that enjoy a quick ascent to the forefront of reform initiatives, but that just as quickly fade to
footnote status. In this paper, i explore the caring ethic as a reform effort, and as a possible “fad.” I examine the life
cycle of reforms to see why some become fads while others apparently endure. I discuss several levels at which reform operates
and the impact these levels have on school practice. Finally, i point out ways in which advocates of the caring ethic may
be pushing it toward faddishness (ultimate failure) and offer ways in which they may avoid such an outcome. 相似文献
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Martin Guhn 《Journal of Educational Change》2009,10(4):337-363
Past educational reforms were commonly found to be of limited success, due to the fact that schools alone cannot overcome
the developmental challenges that poverty and ethno-cultural segregation impose upon many children. However, there are reports
of some reform programs that have frequently been successful in low-achieving, poverty-ridden, and ethno-culturally segregated
schools. In this paper, two such successful school reform programs—School Development Program; Child Development Project—were examined in order to identify processes linked to their frequent success, with a focus on the implementation and sustainability
of these programs. The analysis was theoretically guided by Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological theory of human development. A web of interdependent processes, related to relationship building, autonomy, resistance to change, competence, leadership, team support, and school-family-community partnerships, was identified. These findings are discussed in regard to a conceptual and practical shift in school reform: (a) towards
schools as caring communities that address universal human needs in culturally appropriate ways, with accountability tied
to providing continuity and support to empowered students; and (b) away from schools that universally focus on narrow, externally
imposed, and discriminatory outcome goals. 相似文献
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Conclusion The most important finding from this study is that if one adheres to the guidelines from the literature on staff development
and educational change, teachers can and will change their teaching behaviors. It is very easy, however, to underestimate
the time and resources required to implement change in schools. Even a seemingly simple change such as increasing use of educational
computing, which teachers can implement in their individual classrooms without an overhaul of schools, is immensely complex
and difficult. Helping teachers and schools change requires a systematic effort, with intensive on-going support over a period
of three or more years. Science educators, school leaders, and the public must learn that school improvement is not an event
but a continual process of renewal and refinement.
This study demonstrates the importance of allocating resources to staff development and implementation along with those for
curriculum development. Fortunately, the National Science Foundation has recognized the importance of implementation in school
improvement by requiring that implementation be an integral part of all curriculum development projects it funds. As Hall
(1986) said, “It is not enough to build pretty boxes; what is important is to get the boxes used.”
This article is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. MDR-8470061. Any opionions, findings,
and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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A new approach to curriculum and implementation in a new era normally requires schools and teachers to take more responsibility
for student learning. This might present a challenge at any time, particularly when teachers have been used to more directives
and less professional approaches to curriculum implementation. In order to meet such a challenge, a new approach to curriculum
policy, namely “soft” policy, was used by policy-makers to implement curriculum reform. With the provision of substantial
resources, it was expected by the policy-makers that schools and teachers would have better opportunities to develop themselves
professionally and manage the new changes effectively. However, such a view misread the situation because the historical trend
and present situation of teachers’ professional development were overlooked. This paper uses case studies of schools and teachers
involved in the current reforms to show how teachers and schools implemented the reform process. The cases demonstrate how
reforms were understood at the local level and the extent to which it could be claimed that implementation had taken place. 相似文献
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深刻反省我国教育的"重点制" 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Yongheng You 《Frontiers of Education in China》2007,2(2):229-239
Since the 1980s, “key school system” (KSS) in basic education has contributed to teaching quality and the development of some
schools. However, at the same time it brings about many serious problems such as failure to attain educational objective,
being away from the goal of education equity, arising students’ mental or emotional problems, lack of moral education, vicious
competition among schools and so on. It can be said that the present educational problems are tied closely to “KSS”. As a
result, this paper attempts to do a deep reflection on it to promote the education reform of China.
Translated from Jiaoyu Xuebao 教育学报 (Journal of Education Studies), 2006, 2(2): 36–42 相似文献
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Corrie Stone-Johnson 《Journal of Educational Change》2011,12(2):221-239
From 1998 to 2003, Andy Hargreaves and Ivor Goodson, along with colleagues Shawn Moore, Sonia James-Wilson, Dean Fink, and
Corrie Giles, undertook a large-scale study of eight secondary schools in Ontario, Canada, and New York in the United States
to investigate teachers’ perceptions and experiences of educational change over 30 years spanning from the 1970s through the
1990s (Hargreaves and Goodson in Edu Admn Quart 42(1):3–41, 2006). The Change Over Time? study not only provided a unique glimpse into how schools and teachers experience educational change but also demonstrated
that most of what educators and scholars previously considered when looking at educational change neglected its political,
historical, and longitudinal aspects. Hargreaves and Goodson highlighted five change forces that shape educational change:
waves of reform, changing student demographics, teacher generations, leadership succession, and school interrelations. This
article, based on work conducted in Massachusetts from 2007 to 2009 (Stone-Johnson in Enduring reform: The impact of mandated
change on middle career teachers. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, 2009; Teachers’ career trajectories and work lives. Springer, Dordrecht, 2009), elaborates upon two of these aspects, waves of reform and teacher generations, highlighting the response of the current
generation of teachers in mid-career to the most recent wave of reform. 相似文献
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Lan Ye 《Frontiers of Education in China》2006,1(3):350-369
The Chinese society of the 21st century is at a critical period of transformation. The emergence of globalization and informationalization are the most striking
changes of the current Chinese society. The profound change in the social transformation and its penetrating influence on
people’s lives has revealed the disadvantages of the present education. For 10 years, the “New Elementary Education”, based
on the background of Chinese society, and the demand for school education reform clearly puts forward the necessity of education
reform in the period of social transformation, in other words, education should achieve its transformational development.
This paper presents a deep research of globalization and informationalization, which are the background of Chinese social
transformation. On this basis, the paper examines the implication of ‘school transformational reform” of the present-day Chinese
elementary education, and finally proposes some steps for achieving “school transformational reform”.
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Translated from Journal of the Chinese Society of Education, 2005 (1)
It is very grateful for Bao Tongmei and Chen Jiagang who translated this article from Chinese into English. 相似文献