Caution or Stasis: Using Research to Rethink Schools--Now

Autor/in	Blodget, Alden
Titel	Caution or Stasis: Using Research to Rethink Schools--Now
Quelle	In: Teacher Educators' Journal, 9 (2016), S.156-166 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Educational Practices; Change Strategies; Affective Behavior; Cognitive Style; Neuropsychology; Individual Characteristics; Learning Processes; Cognitive Processes; Context Effect; Research Utilization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Bildungspraxis; Lösungsstrategie; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Neuropsychologie; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Learning process; Lernprozess; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Forschungsumsetzung
Abstract	In this article, Alden Blodget reflects on his more than 50 years of working in what he terms "the tragicomedy club of school reform," and suggests a need to rethink not just classroom teaching methods but the entire system. Blodget states that if the current system is built on faulty assumptions about learning, then there must be a replacing of these assumptions and a redesign of the structures, practices, and policies that they support. Research has shown, however, that change is hard work; it's threatening and can be deeply unsettling. Unfortunately, those who oppose change often seize on any excuse to keep it at bay. Research has also shown that combining the gathering of data and all the other steps that the cautious suggest with actual changes to improve the lives of young learners is available right now--if educators work to study and understand the current research that resonates with their own experiences. Blodget suggests that: (1) schools hire their teachers to work most of the summer with their colleagues to imagine and develop structures, practices, and policies that make more sense than the current ones; and (2) schools of education immerse the next generation of teachers in mind, brain, and education (MBE) because kids in the classrooms need change now, not later. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Association of Teacher Educators in Virginia. Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA 22601. e-mail: ehthomps@ehc.edu; Web site: http://ateva.org/?page_id=450
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01