The purpose of this paper is to capture that work. In the first half of the paper, I explore what we mean when we talk about school improvement, exposing the central reality that school improvement needs to be understood in terms of the larger political, social, and economic forces in play at any given time. Context matters. It shapes the definition of school improvement. I also suggest that our understanding of school improvement is defined by changes in the center of gravity withing the education industry itself. That is, it is only by discerning major changes in what counts as schooling, changes influenced by larger economic, political, and social forces, that we know school improvement means. In short, theconstruct of school improvement has varied over time. At the end of this introductory section, the reader should have a good understanding of the seed bed from which current efforts at school improvement grow-and why those efforts look the way they do.
The purpose of this paper is to capture that work. In the first half of the paper, I explore what we mean when we talk about school improvement, exposing the central reality that school improvement needs to be understood in terms of the larger political, social, and economic forces in play at any given time. Context matters. It shapes the definition of school improvement. I also suggest that our understanding of school improvement is defined by changes in the center of gravity withing the education industry itself. That is, it is only by discerning major changes in what counts as schooling, changes influenced by larger economic, political, and social forces, that we know school improvement means. In short, theconstruct of school improvement has varied over time. At the end of this introductory section, the reader should have a good understanding of the seed bed from which current efforts at school improvement grow-and why those efforts look the way they do.
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