The Normal Accident Theory of Education. Why Reform and Regulation Won't Make Schools Better.
Language: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
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Num Pages: 146 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- The Normal Accident Theory of Education. Why Reform and Regulation Won't Make Schools Better.
- Author
- Milton, Andrew K.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1475806582
- ISBN 13
- 9781475806588
This book argues that as regulation of schools moves further up the bureaucratic hierarchy (first to state departments of education then to the national department of education) the legal and institutional requirements get more intensive but less concretely useful in class rooms. This bureaucratization serves to 'tighten' the organizational environment, thereby increasing the risk of normal accidents. The increasing governmental management, in other words, makes it more likely that schools will 'fail' to meet their goals.
Analyses of education are too often developed for public consumption in a fast-moving political world. This book examines some of the deeper organizational reasons why things don't work so well in school, as well as a look at some of things that do work. Most importantly, the book will explain how the social and cultural expectations of what schools can do may create unrealistic hopes. We, as a society, and schools, as institutions, embrace these unreasonably high hopes at our collective peril.
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