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Citation
Nolan, T. (1998), "Beyond Educational Reform, Bringing Teachers Back in", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 240-240. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijem.1998.12.5.240.1
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
This book is about rethinking our approach to educational reform. The editors in chapter one write, “It is time for reformers to reconnect with the profession of teaching and with the experience of educational research, by working with teachers to build strong professional cultures of shared learning, joint work and collaborative commitment. It is time for teachers to be the included vanguard of reform, and not be made its marginalized victims. It is time for a change of direction and time for a change of heart”.
This book has been compiled because of “the need to bring teachers back into educational reform, and to put their voices and their needs for professional learning at the heart of the change process”.
The content of the book is “a product of the research being conducted within an international network of leading researchers in eight countries called professional actions and cultures of teaching (PACT)”.
The book focuses on educational reform in Britain but draws from across the world in order to address it. It is a timely, well researched, topical publication and is an important element in the debate which should be happening among policy makers, administrators and teachers. All interested in shaping and influencing the education of the nation’s young people in the twenty‐first century should study this book.
It is well referenced and has an index.