Bridging the Progressive-Traditional Divide in Education Reform: A Unifying Vision for Teaching, Learning, and System Level Supports [Hardcover]

This book brings together a variety of connected voices which consider potential ways forward for school reform. By demonstrating how the subject-centered and student-centered models of education can, and have been working together in various contexts, the text sets out a compelling case for an emerging movement that unites ideologies and pedagogical traditions which have traditionally been considered to be at odds with one another.

In drawing from historical sources, the full range of contemporary research, and a series of investigations led by the authors, this book documents the deep back-story of school reform, and explains the powerful and largely unacknowledged consensus on what constitutes excellence in teaching and learning.

This book will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of school reform and educational leadership. It will also appeal to graduate students, researchers and postgraduates in the fields of history of education, educational leadership, teaching and learning, and curriculum studies.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Exemplary Teaching and the Unacknowledged Consensus

Chapter 2: Agreement from Policy Leaders

Chapter 3: Agreement from Historic and Emerging Pedagogies

Chapter 4: Agreement from Contemporary Research

Chapter 5: How Most Teachers Teach and Why

Chapter 6: Pluralism

Chapter 7: Assessment

Chapter 8: Organization