The End of School Reform

Berube, Maurice R.

ISBN 10: 0742539474 / ISBN 13: 9780742539471

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

About this Item

Education as a major social movement is coming to an end. Including interviews of education historians and policy professors, this work maintains that educational innovation may continue, but only on a piecemeal basis. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 145. . 2006. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of School Reform
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742539474
• ISBN 13: 9780742539471
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Education as a major social movement is coming to an end. The End of School Reform derives its theoretical framework from the ideas of Hegel, who perceived an end to history, and Thomas Kuhn, who theorized that history does not follow a linear path but that the scientific landscape changes through large-scale movements called 'paradigm shifts'. This book examines the partial successes of history's three major educational reform movements (the Progressive Education movement at the beginning of the 20th century, the Equity Reform movement of the 1960's-1970's, and the Excellence Reform movement from 1983 to the present) and contends that such major movements in education will never be seen again. Blending Arthur Danto's 'end of art', John Horgan's 'end of science', and Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' theses_all of which argue that only minor reforms will occur in the future_and drawing on interviews of education historians and policy professors, the 'end of school reform' thesis maintains that educational innovation may still continue, but only on a piecemeal basis.

About the Author

MAURICE R. BERUBE is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Old Dominion University. He is the author of American Presidents and Education (1991), Teacher Politics: The Influence of Unions (1988), and Education and Poverty: Effective Schooling in the United States and Cuba (1984), and many more, all published by Greenwood.