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Larry Cuban - Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education - 9781612505565 - V9781612505565
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Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education

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Description for Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education Paperback. In an era of major reform in education, this book poses a serious question: Why haven t classroom practices evolved to reflect changes in policy? The book exposes persistent, routine teacher strategies that must be addressed to optimize reform efforts." Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice is a provocative culminating statement from one of America's most insightful education scholars and leaders.

Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice takes as its starting point a strikingly blunt question: ""With so many major structural changes in U.S. public schools over the past century, why have classroom practices been largely stable, with a modest blending of new and old teaching practices, leaving contemporary classroom lessons familiar to earlier generations of school-goers?""

It is a question that ought to be of paramount interest to all who are interested in school reform in the United States. It is also a question that comes naturally to Larry Cuban, whose much-admired books have focused on various aspects of school reform--their promises, wrong turns, partial successes, and troubling failures. In this book, he returns to this territory, but trains his focus on the still baffling fact that policy reforms--no matter how ambitious or determined--have generally had little effect on classroom conduct and practice.

Cuban explores this problem from a variety of angles. Several chapters look at how teachers, in responding to major policy initiatives, persistently adopt changes and alter particular routine practices while leaving dominant ways of teaching largely undisturbed. Other chapters contrast recent changes in clinical medical practice with those in classroom teaching, comparing the practical effects of varying medical and education policies. The book's concluding chapter distils important insights from these various explorations, taking us inside the ""black box"" of the book's title: those workings that have repeatedly transformed dramatic policy initiatives into familiar--and largely unchanged--classroom practices.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612505565
SKU
V9781612505565
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About Larry Cuban
Larry Cuban is professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, USA. His most recent books are As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin and Cutting Through the Hype: The Essential Guide to School Reform (Harvard Education Press).

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