The Global Fourth Way: The Quest for Educational Excellence
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ISBN: 1412987865 / Publisher: Corwin, September 2012
Learn from global lessons of successful educational change!Deep and lasting educational reform doesn’t happen overnight. This example-packed sequel to The Fourth Way draws upon inspiring examples unearthed by brand new research to challenge educational leaders, teachers, and policy makers to put proven strategies to work promoting student achievement and the high quality teaching that drives it. With striking success stories from diverse systems around the world, Hargreaves and Shirley discuss: The real-life, nitty-gritty challenges facing change leaders Stumbling blocks to enacting best principles and practices Developing and implementing a plan of action to overcome challenges to lasting change
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Building upon the arguments presented in their previous book, The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change, the authors (both of the Lynch School of Education at Boston College) continue to promote their "fourth way" model of educational change. The model is built upon collectively decided and not politically imposed system targets for achievement, the engagement of a broader range of learning beyond literacy and mathematics, the use of data to inform rather than drive teacher inquiry and decision making, the use of testing to sample the progress of systems without distorting the way they operate, the engagement of teachers in curriculum development within and across schools as opposed to teachers as mere vehicles of curriculum developed elsewhere, and a concept of leadership that revolves around collective responsibility rather than vertical accountability. Here, they seek to further illustrate the value of this previously articulated "fourth way" by examining selected examples of high performance in school systems and school around the world, with cases drawn from Finland, Singapore, Canada, England, and the United States. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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