Education, the Captive Profession: Theory, Practice, and Prospects for Achieving Improvements in Educational OutcomesThis text considers why education has not improved in the light of reform efforts imposed in recent years. It proposes that the key to improvement is to be found in a reformulation of the methods utilized previously to reform it. |
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Problem Identification and the Flaws of Educational Reform | 17 |
Problem identification in teacher education | 59 |
Lack of appropriate curriculum and content | 73 |
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academic academic majors achieve American education appropriate areas attitude authority behavior Burns and Stalker changes proposed Chapter 12 classroom cognitive science complex adaptive system conceptual control of education coordination critical curriculum Dalin decision-making discipline education faculty education unit education's educational administration educational change process educational improvement educational reform educational system effective elementary schools elements Elmore and McLaughlin environment factors faculty members federal framework functions goals groups homeostasis homeostatic implemented individual innovation involved knowledge base lack learning outcomes major Nation at Risk necessary objectives organizational personnel political principals problems professional educators public and teacher public schools recommendations reform efforts responsibility result role Sarason school social workers school system schools of education Second-Order Change secondary schools significant skills strategies structure student learning systems theory teacher education programs teacher preparation programs teaching theories of administration theory third-order changes type of change understanding