1st Edition
Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children A Science of Performance Model for Research
By Stuart McNaughton
Copyright 2011
200 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust ‘science of performance’ model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts, this book:
lays out the traditions of optimism and... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgments
- Ongoing optimism, persistent pessimism and their roots
- Weighing up the evidence
- Explaining our limitations
- Optimism in the detail.
- Problems for an Optimist - Matthew effects
- What is being effective? Accelerating and distributing achievement
- Summer learning
- Sustaining change
- Scaling up
- Understanding the contexts for effective teaching
- A science of performance: Research and development partnerships
- Building more effective schools: Notes on a cautious optimism
Biography
Stuart McNaughton is Professor of Education and Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre at The University of Auckland.
