School Leadership, Literacy and Social Justice : The Place of Local School Curriculum Planning and Reform
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Bogotch, Ira Shields, Carolyn |
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2014
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School reform is a matter of both redistributive social justice and recognitive social justice. Following Fraser (Justice interruptus: critical reflections on the “postsocialist” condition. Routledge, New York, 1997), we begin from a philosophical and political commitment to the more equitable redistribution of knowledge, credentials, competence, and capacity to children of low socioeconomic, cultural, and linguistic minority and Indigenous communities whose access, achievement, and participation historically have “lagged” behind system norms and benchmarks set by middle class and dominant culture communities. At the same time, we argue that the recognition of these students and their communities’ lifeworlds, knowledges, and experiences in the curriculum, in classroom teaching, and learning is both a means and an end: a means toward improved achievement measured conventionally and a goal for reform and alteration of mainstream curriculum knowledge and what is made to count in the school as valued cultural knowledge and practice. The work that we report here was based on an ongoing 4-year project where a team of university teacher educators/researchers have partnered with school leadership and staff to build relationships within community. The purpose has been to study whether and how engagement with new digital arts and multimodal literacies could have effects on students “conventional” print literacy achievement and, secondly, to study whether and how the overall performance of a school could be generated through a focus on professional conversations and partnerships in curriculum and instruction – rather than the top-down implementation of a predetermined pedagogical scheme, package, or approach. |
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Springer |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/52051/2/52051.pdf http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6555-9_28 DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-6555-9_28 Woods, Annette F., Dooley, Karen T., Luke, Allan, & Exley, Beryl E. (2014) School Leadership, Literacy and Social Justice : The Place of Local School Curriculum Planning and Reform. In Bogotch, Ira & Shields, Carolyn (Eds.) International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice. Springer, New York, pp. 509-520. |
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Copyright 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht |
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Office of Education Research; Faculty of Education; School of Cultural & Language Studies in Education; School of Early Childhood |
Palavras-Chave | #130105 Primary Education (excl. Maori) #130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE ESL and TESOL) #139999 Education not elsewhere classified #School reform #Schooling in low SES areas #Literacy |
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Book Chapter |