Designing better schools for culturally and linguistically diverse children : a science of performance model for research / by Stuart McNaughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNaughton, S. (Stuart)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of minorities--Education--New Zealand.

Children of minorities.

School improvement programs--New Zealand.

School improvement programs.

Education--Research.

Education.

Children of minorities--Education.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

xvi, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political, and social power? McNaughton puts forward a robust 'science of performance' model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts. Built on assumptions about both teachers (problem solvers and adaptive experts) and teaching, as well as about research, Designing Better Schools for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children:

lays out the traditions of optimism and pessimism about effective schooling for students currently at risk in our schools

reviews the international and national evidence for the effectiveness of schools and school systems in reducing disparities in achievement

describes the challenges educational research must address to solve the problem of school effectiveness, proposes strict criteria against which effectiveness should be judged, and examines in detail examples where change has been demonstrated

proposes how researchers, professionals, and policy makers can develop more effective systems.

Bringing together structural and psychological accounts of the nature of schools, and establishing theoretically defensible criteria for judging effectiveness, this book is a critically important contribution to advancing the science of making schools more effective. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Ongoing optimism, persistent pessimism and their roots 1

2 Weighing up the evidence 10

3 Explaining our limitations 22

4 Optimism in the detail 34

5 Problems for an optimist - Matthew Effects 50

6 What is being effective? Accelerating and distributing achievement 53

7 Summer learning 77

8 Sustaining change 94

9 Scaling up 108

10 Understanding the contexts for effective teaching 123

11 A science of performance: Research and development partnerships 139

12 Building more effective schools: Notes on a cautious optimism 156.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780415886598

0415886597

0415886600

9780415886604

OCLC:

642845701