1st Edition

Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform A Unifying Vision for Teaching, Learning, and System Level Supports

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together a variety of connected voices which consider potential ways forward for school reform. By demonstrating how the ‘subject-centered’ and ‘student-centered’ models of education can, and have been working together in various contexts, the text sets out a compelling case for an emerging movement that unites ideologies and pedagogical traditions which have traditionally been... Read more

Acknowledgements



INTRODUCTION: Non-honors English





PART I: A Unifying Vision for Teaching and Learning



Chapter 1: Exemplary Teaching and the Unacknowledged Consensus



Chapter 2: Agreement from Policy Leaders



Chapter 3: Agreement from Historic and Emerging Pedagogies



Chapter 4: Agreement from Contemporary Research





PART II: Why Don’t All Teachers Teach This Way?



Chapter 5: How Most Teachers Teach and Why





PART III: System Support



Chapter 6: Pluralism



Chapter 7: Assessment



Chapter 8: Organization





Final Thoughts: Excellence is a Discipline

Biography

James Nehring is an associate professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, U.S.A.



Stacy Szczesiul is an associate professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, U.S.A.



Megin Charner-Laird is an associate professor in the School of Education at Salem State University, U.S.A.