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This study investigates pre-service teachers’ perceptions of urban schools. We asked 41 pre-service teachers, mostly white
and female, to report their perceptions of four aspects of urban schools (appearance and atmosphere, resources, students,
and teachers) and identify the sources of their perceptions. We analyze the data qualitatively to understand how they perceive
urban schools and quantitatively to determine group trends in their perceptions. Findings reveal that their perceptions of
urban schools are complex, with negative and positive impressions of selected aspects of urban schools. Implications of these
findings for teacher education, in particular, urban field placements and curriculum, are explored.
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Jean Ann (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This article aims to explore how democratic community is manifest in schools in Korea. It also tries to examine how leadership,
specifically transformational leadership, functions in shaping a democratic community within a school. Toward this aim, we
have conducted a case study of two religious high schools in Korea. Based on the findings from the schools, we have discussed
five aspects related to democratic community and transformational leadership. When school principals’ leadership has transformational
characteristics and consistency over the years, the leaders’ mission and vision become shared values among the school members.
The shared vision and cultural values make democratic systems work effectively. This article includes implications for educational
policy and practice.
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Susan PrintyEmail: |
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Kenneth Leithwood 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(1):71-75
Policy makers and leadership developers now admonish both aspiring and practicing educational leaders to base what they do
on evidence of “best practice”. Some argue, however, that today’s best practices stand a reasonably good chance of being unsuitable
for schools in the future. Unfortunately, effective leadership in future schools is empirically unknowable. This paper unpacks
the arguments about “best” and “next” practices concluding that there is an empirically defensible foundation for current
and future leaders.
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Kenneth LeithwoodEmail: |
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Mark G. Storz 《The Urban Review》2008,40(3):247-267
In interviews with over 250 urban young adolescents, many students make it clear that they are acutely aware of the educational
inequities that exist in their schools and that these inequities are having a negative impact on their education. Student
voice is used to highlight urban middle school students’ perspectives on the quality of their education particularly in terms
of curricular issues, teacher quality, and lack of resources.
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Mark G. StorzEmail: |
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Odis Johnson Jr. 《The Urban Review》2008,40(3):227-246
This article examines how variation in educational outcomes according to “place,” or one’s geographic environment, has been
explained in educational theory. In a critical review of functional, conflict, cultural and institutional theory in education,
the author describes the disciplinary perspectives and research that leave the mechanisms of student differentiation according
to place largely undeveloped. By introducing two related concepts of endogenous capital, the author articulates macro- and
micro-level systems of social mobility between and within schools according to place. The author contends the social organization
and functioning of schools mirror and support the larger structure of place-based stratification in that they sort and allocate
students into places within school that differentiate one’s ability to convert the resources of the environment into social
mobility.
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Odis Johnson Jr.Email: |
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Janice E. Jackson 《Journal of Educational Change》2007,8(2):105-109
Today’s media is filled with stories of man’s inhumanity toward man. Education journals are replete with assessments of educators
as failing to meet the demands of the modern world. Jansen offers stories of hope to counterbalance the bombardment of negative
stories. His research “explores the character of leadership in transition societies”. He draws portraits of three educators,
in leadership roles, whose lives provide a moment for us to catch our breath and remember that leaders have choices about
how they will live out their roles in ways that are grounded in social justice
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Janice E. JacksonEmail: |
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Iryna Johnson 《Research in higher education》2008,49(8):776-793
Educational research has shown that individual-level background characteristics, such as parental socio-economic status and
academic ability, influence college going behavior. This study tests for the existence of aggregate-level high school effects
on college enrollment, persistence and degree attainment. It links institutional data on students enrolling within a year
after graduation from in-state high schools with state data on high schools’ performance and populations. Three high school
aggregate-level factors were found to affect enrollment and persistence. Specifically, the high schools’ percent of SAT takers
has a concave-shape effect on enrollment, retention and graduation. Additionally, students coming from schools with a higher
percent of those receiving free lunch are less likely to persist, and students coming from schools located within a 60 mile
radius are more likely to matriculate and to persist to the second year. These results suggest that aggregate-level high school
characteristics should be accounted for in enrollment management.
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Iryna JohnsonEmail: |
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Ethan Campbell 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):307-310
Ideological differences in a writing class evoke the passion of political sensitivities. A graduate student tells of “coming
out” as a pro-life advocate in an essay before his feminist classmates and professor. The exchange created instant and irreconcilable
enemies, but he also found some unexpected support from a hesitant voice within that classroom.
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Ethan CampbellEmail: |
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Christopher Day 《Journal of Educational Change》2008,9(3):243-260
This paper is based upon a unique mixed methods 4-year research project which focused upon the variations in teachers’ work,
lives, and effectiveness of 300 elementary and secondary school teachers in a range of 100 schools across seven regions of
England. Its findings challenge linear conceptions of teacher development and expertise and provide new understandings of
the effects of personal, school and broader policy contexts upon professional life phase trajectories and teachers’ emotional
identities. It finds connections between these and teachers’ commitment, resilience, and effectiveness. This paper discusses
these in relation to the school standards and teacher retention agendas.
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Christopher DayEmail: |
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Felicia M. Moore 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2007,18(5):773-794
This study describes how teachers use their personal knowledge of a school district and their students to cope with teaching
under stressful situations associated with economic, social, and institutional factors. The 3 teachers dealt with these issues
in unique ways, focusing on helping students to overcome negative perceptions, value the importance of an education, and build
strong relationships. A model of multicultural science professional development is proposed that complements the strengths
that these teachers have. A task for science educators working with teachers and administration in schools and districts that
are “critically low performing” is to support everyone in implementing pedagogical methods aimed at empowerment, social justice,
and high achievement for all students.
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Felicia M. MooreEmail: |
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This paper describes the rationale, conceptualization and design of the Second International Information Technology in Education
Study (SITES). SITES is a survey of schools and teachers of their pedagogical practices, their use of ICT and their readiness
for changing their teaching–learning towards the demands of the 21st century. The study will take place under the auspices
of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the data collection is planned for
2006; therefore the project is called ‘SITES2006’.
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T. PlompEmail: |
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In this article, we concentrate upon the lifeworld resources that comprise the funds of knowledge for children living in a
rural community in the southeastern United States. Through interview conversations with a group of third grade children, we
identified three lifeworld resources—interdependence, garbage dumping, and feral dogs—that rural teachers might draw on to
generate curriculum that is connected to the community in which they teach. Through such connections rural teachers may increase
the likelihood that they will remain teaching in rural schools.
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Amy Suzanne JohnsonEmail: |
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Peter M. Miller 《The Urban Review》2009,41(3):222-250
This qualitative study examines the collaboration and leadership practice that influences the education of homeless students
in a large Mid-Atlantic city. The perspectives of administrators and staff members from three homeless shelters are analyzed
with insights from Spillane’s (Distributed leadership, 2006) distributed leadership theory. Findings from the study indicate
that differences in shelter and school structures and cultures present significant obstacles to productive communication that
would facilitate homeless children’s schooling. Several structural and programmatic recommendations are made towards developing
more effective leadership practice among schools and shelters.
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Peter M. MillerEmail: |
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Rune Johan Krumsvik 《Education and Information Technologies》2008,13(4):279-290
Computer literacy, media literacy, digital literacy and digital competence are all concepts that highlight the need to handle
technology in our digital age. However, when it comes to teachers’ digital literacy there is a need to develop a more pedagogic-didactic
content for digital literacy in order to deal with the way in which new digital trends influence the underlying conditions
for schools, pedagogy and subjects. This theoretical article will therefore examine whether a broader view of knowledge (situated
learning) can be a relevant theoretical underpinning for a new digital competence model for teachers and the Scandinavian
English perception of the term competence. The article is particularly angled towards how the complexity of teachers’ digital
literacy makes it necessary to expand our traditional perception of this concept. The implications of the article indicate
that five vital structures are found to be essential to perceptions amongst teachers of the importance of Information- and
Communication Technology (ICT) and achievement of digital competence.
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Rune Johan KrumsvikEmail: |
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The purpose of this study is to identify school factors that affect students’ achievements at the secondary and tertiary levels
of education. The analysis included data of 9,894 students who studied in Auckland regional secondary schools in 2004. The
results indicate that, although student demographic characteristics are associated with students’ pathways and achievements,
schools’ demographic composition did not affect student outcomes. It was found, however, that schools’ organisational factors
do have an effect. At the university level, none of the schools’ characteristics was related to students’ achievements at
the higher end of the achievement scale (GPA ≥ 4). However, students from private or state-integrated schools were found to
be more likely to achieve low GPA (<2) than students who came from state schools. In conclusion, it is suggested that interventions
targeting at-risk populations based on demographic factors should focus on individuals or groups rather than on institutions;
while school-based interventions should identify the schools by their structure and function rather than by their demographic
characteristics.
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Boaz ShulrufEmail: Email: |
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Peter Wood 《Academic Questions》2007,20(4):277-294
This essay on the ethical mission of the university explores extremes of anti-social behavior, visiting numerous crime scenes
before concluding that contemporary higher education has lost the capacity—and even the language—for taking character development
seriously. In his attempt to determine whether coincidently traditional-liberationist-diversiphilic-apathetic colleges can
morally improve their charges, Peter Wood collects a wrenching compendium of violent academic mayhem.
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Peter WoodEmail: |
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Trust and improvement in schools 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
Karen Seashore Louis 《Journal of Educational Change》2007,8(1):1-24
This paper examines how trust affects teachers’ willingness to work with innovations introduced by central office administrators.
Interview and focus group data collected over a three-year period in five schools are used to analyze the centrality of trust
to teachers’ willingness to work with administrators to implement continuous improvement and quality management practices
for their schools and classrooms. A qualitative data analysis software package was used to code interviews and focus groups
for spontaneous comments that addressed trust. Two schools were characterized by high trust, and high willingness to change;
high levels of distrust distinguished three others. This emphasis of the analysis is on the association of spontaneously expressed
sentiments of trust or distrust and the association of those sentiments with willingness to participate in change initiated
from outside the school building. Pre-existing patterns of relational and institutional trust will enhance or limit the ability
of leaders to initiate large-scale change. More needs to be known about how to change coherently distrustful school settings
in order for systemic change to occur.
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Karen Seashore LouisEmail: |
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Graeme C. Rose 《Journal of Educational Change》2007,8(3):207-233
A model examining psychological empowerment, transformational leadership and innovation for school principals is proposed
and tested within a Site (School)-Based Management environment. Developed from management literature, the model was adapted
for state school principals experiencing increased decision-making powers and accountability. Empirical results provide a
level of support for the model. ‘Role clarity’ and ‘access to resources’ were found to exert a positive influence on principals’
feelings of empowerment, though the value placed by principals on strategic information was found to have a slightly negative
influence. The influence of empowerment on transformational leadership was not found to be as strong as anticipated. The paper
includes a discussion of the implications of these findings for theory and policy development.
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Graeme C. RoseEmail: |