Social Geographies of Educational Change

Social Geographies, as spatial location, is a factor relevant to understanding the variety of people’s interpretations and appropriations of educational innovations and changes. Their location in the social space also influences their response to change.

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Social Geographies of Educational Change Edited by

F. Hernandez University of Barcelona, Spain

and

I.F. Goodson University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors

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Introduction Social Geographies of Educational Change: Drawing a Map for Curious and Dissatisfied Travellers FERNANDO HERNÁNDEZ & IVOR F. GOODSON

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Part 1. Educational change: from the analysis of conditions of achieving to the relevance of personal biographies Accomplishing Large Scale Reform: A Tri-Level Proposition MICHAEL FULLAN, CAROL ROLHEISER, BLAIR MASCALL & KAREN EDGE

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Understanding Curriculum Change: Some Warnings about Restructuring Initiatives IVOR F. GOODSON

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Part 2. Beyond School Walls: creating networks in education Social Networks in Teaching JORGE ÁVILA DE LIMA

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The Work of the National Writing Project: Social Practices in a Network Context ANN LIEBERMAN & DIANE WOOD

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Networks of Schools and Constructing Citizenship in Secondary Education WIEL VEUGELERS & HENK ZIJLSTRA

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Part 3. Gazes on education protagonists Cultures of Schooling. No Place for Women? NIEVES BLANCO

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Mapping Visual Cultural Narratives to Explore Adolescents’ Identities FERNANDO HERNÁNDEZ

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The Parent Gap: The Emotional Geographies of Teacher-Parent Relationships ANDY HARGREAVES & SUE LASKY

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Part 4. Looking Technology from the other Side of the Mirror The Merger of ICT and Education: Should It Necessarily Be an Exercise in the Eternal Recurrence of the Reinvention of the Wheel? AHARON AVIRAM & DEBORAH TALMI

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Virtual Geographies of Educational Change: The More Complex the Problems the Simpler the Answers JUANA M. SANCHO

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Author Index

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Michael Fullan is Professor of Education at the Ontario Institute of Education, University of Toronto. He is a consultant, trainer and researcher on a wide range of educational reform issues internationally. His books have been translated into many languages. His latest books are: Leading in a Culture of Change (Jossey-Bass), Change Forces with a Vengeance (Routledge Falmer) and The Moral Imperative of School Leadership (Corwin Press). Carol Rolheiser is an Associate Dean – Teacher Education of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Carol is a committed leader in school district/university partnerships, concentrating on both teacher development and school improvement. Her research, pu