Restructuring in the Classroom: Teaching, Learning, and School Organization - Hardcover

Elmore, Richard F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078790239X ISBN 13: 9780787902391

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

By melding policy analysis and up-close observation, the authorsilluminate the really hard issues in improving instruction. Thisbook will shape educational research and reform for many years tocome.

?David Tyack, Vida Jacks Professor of Education and History,Stanford University

About this title

About the Author

RICHARD F. ELMORE is professor of education and chairman of programs in administration, planning, and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. PENELOPE L. PETERSON is University Distinguished Professor of Education at Michigan State University and president-elect of the American Educational Research Association. SARAH J. MCCARTHEY is an assistant professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas at Austin.

From the Back Cover

"A lucid, vivid, and persuasive account of the 'slippery' relationship between school organization and classroom teaching. By melding policy analysis and up-close observation, the authors illuminate the really hard issues in improving instruction. This book will shape educational research and reform for many years to come." ―David Tyack, Vida Jacks Professor of Education and History, Stanford University This book addresses the question of whether organizational restructuring efforts can actually make a difference in how teachers teach and how students learn. By taking an in-depth look at three elementary schools and six classrooms undergoing change, the authors reveal important findings on how reform models might be translated into effective classroom practice.

From the Inside Flap

For the past decade, most efforts at educational reform have centered around the school restructuring movement--the idea that changing the way schools are organized will change how teachers teach and how students learn. Yet until recently there was very little research on the effects of school restructuring and how it actually affects what goes on inside the classroom. Restructuring in the Classroom goes into the classrooms of three elementary schools to take a detailed look at how teachers responded to changes in structure in their schools. The authors interviewed principals, teachers, parents, support staff, and district personnel to produce in-depth case studies of schools at various stages of restructuring, showing what the school had done to change its structure and how those changes had occurred. Selecting four teachers in each school for closer observation and discussion, the authors reveal how those teachers responded to the changes around them in their day-to-day practice in the classroom. They show, for example, how teaching practice is or is not affected by changes in the way students are grouped for learning, in the way teachers relate to groups of students and to each other, and in the way time is allocated to subject matter. The provocative portraits of schools and teachers in Restructuring in the Classroom will give anyone interested in school reform an in-depth picture of what the process of school restructuring looks like from within.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078790239X
• ISBN 13: 9780787902391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 279