Redesigning Teaching - Professionalism or Bureaucracy?

Redesigning Teaching provides concrete case studies of school districts implementing teacher reforms. The cases describe the changes, give the history and dynamics of each project, examine how teachers respond to new policies and procedures, and tell how state policy affects local efforts to change teaching. The book also suggests that while short-term improvements can be accomplished through bureaucracy, serious reform requires professionalization. The authors identify challenges that state governments, school administrators, and teachers' associations must face if they really want to professionalize teaching.

About the author

William A. Firestone is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Research in Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Product details

• Authors: Beth D Bader, Beth D. Bader, William A Firestone, William A. Firestone
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.1992
• EAN: 9780791411247
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1124-7
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Suny Series in Religion, Cultu; Suny Series, Teacher Preparati; Suny Series in Religion, Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology