Changing Practices, Changing Education

• Main Authors: Kemmis, Stephen (Author), Wilkinson, Jane (Author), Edwards-Groves, Christine (Author), Hardy, Ian (Author), Grootenboer, Peter (Author), Bristol, Laurette (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.

 This book aims to help teachers and those who support them to re-imagine the work of teaching, learning and leading. In particular, it shows how transformations of educational practice depend on complementary transformations in classroom-school- and system-level organisational cultures, resourcing...

Table of Contents:

• 1) Education: The need for revitalisation
• 2) Praxis, practice and practice architectures
• 3) Ecologies of practices
• 4) Student Learning: Learning practices
• 5) Teaching: Initiation into practices
• 6) Professional learning as practice development
• 7) Practising leading
• 8) Researching as a practice-changing practice
• 9) Revitalising Education: Site based education development
• Appendix) Analysing practices using the theories of practice architectures and ecologies of practices: An example.