Transformative researchers and educators for democracy : Dartmouth dialogues

Transformative researchers and educators for democracy : Dartmouth dialogues / edited by João M. Paraskeva and Thad LaVallee.

The 2012 Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Annual Conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth met head-on with issues of neoliberalism, educational democracy, cultural politics, public education, and seeing teachers and administrators as critical transforma...

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Other Authors: Paraskeva, João M. (Editor), LaVallee, Thad (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam, The Netherlands : SensePublishers, 2015.
Subjects:
Education and state.
Education > Aims and objectives.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Education > Aims and objectives
Education and state
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Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Let's Begin from the Beginning; NEOLIBERAL GLOBALISMS; NON-NAÏVE NAÏVET©: THIN INTELLECTUALISM AND THE CULT OF POLITICAL ILLITERACY; CARNIVAL: TO BEGIN FROM THE BEGINNING; WORKING WITHIN THE CRACKS OF THE SYSTEM
  • FINAL NOTES; REFERENCES; PERSONAL NOTE; NOTE; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. WHAT IS A FACT? AND WHO CAN WE / SHOULD WE TRUST?; NOTE; 2. DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION AGAINST CORPORATE SCHOOL REFORM: The New Market Bureaucracy in U.S. Public Schooling; INTRODUCTION; THE NEOLIBERAL PROMISE OF DEBUREAUCRATIZING PUBLIC EDUCATION.
  • THE NEW MARKET BUREAUCRACY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLINGTHE NEW MARKET POSITIVISM IN THE DOMINANT EDUCATIONAL REFORMS; THE NEW MARKET POSITIVISM; INSTITUTIONALIZING THE NEW MARKET POSITIVISM IN THE NEW PRIVATIZED BUREAUCRACY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 3. GUIDING EMERGENCE: Understanding Cultural Change in an Urban Catholic School; METHODS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: A SYSTEMS ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL CULTURE; THE URBAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL CONTEXT: SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHICS AND EXTERNAL PRESSURES; THREE STRATEGIES FOR SCHOOL CHANGE; DREAM BIG: CREATING A COMMON SCHOOL CULTURE.
  • DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP: CREATING STRUCTURES OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNINGINSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: CHALLENGING AND SUPPORTING TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM; GUIDING EMERGENCE: CHALLENGE, SUPPORT, AND BALANCE; NOTE; REFERENCES; 4. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY: Where It All Went Wrong; THE ORIGINS OF A CONCEPT; REINVENTING GOVERNMENT; ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK; NOTES; REFERENCES; 5. HIGHER-ORDER CRITICAL THINKING IN TEACHER PREPARATION: Putting 21st Century Skills Into Action; PURPOSE OF STUDY; Research Design and Methodology; Data Analysis and Limitations of Study.
  • Challenges and Needs of a Growing ProgramRESULTS; Need for Further Research within a Larger Framework of Inquiry; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; APPENDIX A; Higher Order Critical Thinking Strategies; APPENDIX B; Teaching Strategies of Adjuncts; 6. TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP: Positivity and Power in a Cohort Model Doctoral Program; REVIEW OF LITERATURE; DESIGN OF QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSES AND ANALYSIS; RESPONSES; EMERGENCE OF TWO PROMINENT THEMES; SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE COHORT'S TIMELINE; THOSE WHO STEP UP AND THOSE WHO HOLD BACK; RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH; REFERENCES; APPENDIX.
  • 7. HOW CAN THE PROCESSES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE PROMOTE A CULTURE THAT FOCUSES ON IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING?INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; What Are the Processes of Organizational Change?; The Impact of Innovation on Organizational Change and Student Learning; How Can the Processes of Organizational Change Impact A School's Culture?; The Impact of Innovation on Organizational Change and Student Learning; How Can the Culture Improve Student Learning?; DISCUSSION; What Are the Components of Change That Are Needed in Higher Education in the 21st Century?; CONCLUSION.

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