Changing Practices, Changing Education

✍ Scribed by Stephen Kemmis, Jane Wilkinson, Christine Edwards-Groves, Ian Hardy, Peter Grootenboer, Laurette Bristol (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Singapur
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how transformations of educational practice depend on complementary transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational cultures, resourcing and politics. It argues that transforming education requires more than professional development to transform teachers; it also calls for fundamental changes in learning and leading practices, which in turn means reshaping organisations that support teachers and teaching – organisational cultures, the resources organisations provide and distribute, and the relationships that connect people with one another in organisations. The book is based on findings from new research being conducted by the authors – the research team for the (2010-2012) Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project Leading and Learning: Developing Ecologies of Educational Practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Education: The Need for Revitalisation....Pages 1-23
Praxis, Practice and Practice Architectures....Pages 25-41
Ecologies of Practices....Pages 43-54
Student Learning: Learning Practices....Pages 55-91
Teaching: Initiation Into Practices....Pages 93-126
Professional Learning as Practice Development....Pages 127-155
Practising Leading....Pages 157-178
Researching as a Practice-Changing Practice....Pages 179-204
Revitalising Education: Site Based Education Development....Pages 205-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-278

✦ Subjects

Administration, Organization and Leadership; Educational Policy and Politics