College student voices on educational reform
Subtitle: challenging and changing conversations
By: edited by Kevin Burke, Brian Collier, Maria McKenna
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781137343031
Subjects: Education; Study and teaching (Higher); Educational change; Critical pedagogy; Teachers; Training of; College students; Attitudes; EDUCATION / Curricula; EDUCATION / Higher; EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Description: "This text critically addresses, through college student voices, the American school reform movement in its rhetoric, policy and practice. Drawing from a course taught by McKenna, Collier, and Burke, this book provides theoretical and practical demonstrations of how a university course can treat students, many of them future teachers, as engaged citizens and contributors to discussions of education and society. It showcases work done by students in the process of learning education reform policy, discusses the obstacles and problems encountered as students join conversations on reform at both their university and in society at large, and examines the particular ways in which authoritative discourse and personal experience come to form knowledge at the university level"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction: Framing Reform; M. McKenna; B. Collier; K. Burke; title: 2. Literacy: Fostering Lifelong Learning; Student Chapter; title: 3. Early Childhood Education; Student Chapter; title: 4. The School Environment: Common Purpose in Separate Spaces; Student Chapter; title: 5. Concluding: Ideological Becoming without Becoming Ideological; M. McKenna; B. Collier; K. Burke.