商品簡介
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 pessimism about effective schooling for at-risk students
reviews the international and national evidence for the effectiveness of schools and school systems in reducing disparities in achievement
describes the challenges educational research must address to solve the problem of school effectiveness, proposes strict criteria against which effectiveness should be judged, and examines in detail examples where change has been demonstrated
proposes how researchers, professionals, and policy-makers can develop more effective systems.
Bringing together structural and psychological accounts of the nature of schools, and establishing theoretically defensible criteria for judging effectiveness, this book is a critically important contribution to advancing the science of making schools more effective.
作者簡介
Stuart McNaughton is Professor of Education and Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre at The University of Auckland.
目次
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
