- Title
- Teacher research and democratic educational reform
- Creator
- Lankshear, Colin; Knobel, Michele
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/65134
- Identifier
- vital:506
- Identifier
- ISSN:1405-6666
- Abstract
- In Teachers as Researchers (2003: Ch 1), Joe Kincheloe advocates teacher research as a means by which teachers can resist and overcome a trend emanating from the United States toward domination of curriculum and pedagogy by ‘technical standards’ based on ‘expert research’ and imposed in a ‘top-down’ manner by educational administrators and policy makers. This is a trend where curriculum has become highly standardized. Teachers within the same subject areas in the same grades are required to ‘cover the same content, assign the same importance to the content they cover, and evaluate it in the same way’ regardless of the diversity of school communities, school settings, student needs and backgrounds, and so on (Marzano and Kendall 1999; Kincheloe 2003: 4). Teachers are strongly encouraged to teach to the tests that are used to measure student outcomes because schools are compared on the basis of the scores their students achieve. This regime of measuring and reporting outcomes is promoted in the name of ‘accountability,’ and is very difficult for schools to resist. On one hand, if schools do not make an effort to compete they are likely to lose students to other schools whose achievement scores impress parents/caregivers. On the other hand, if schools can show their scores are improving—by teaching more and more rigorously to the content-laden tests and enlisting parents/caregivers in this culture as overseers of student homework and preparation for tests, they can maintain and improve their enrolments.; C1
- Publisher
- Mexico Academic Association of Educational Research in Mexico
- Relation
- Mexican Journal of Educational Research Vol. 8, no. 19 (2003), p. 705-731
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Academic Association of Educational Research in Mexico
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 13 Education; Teacher education; School reform
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