Innovation, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Educational Change. Responses

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Title: Innovation, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Educational Change. Responses
Language: English
Authors: Labaree, David F.
Source: Educational Administration Quarterly. 2006 42(1):157-164.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 8
Publication Date: 2006
Intended Audience: Administrators
Document Type: Journal Articles
Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Politics of Education, Educational History, Educational Innovation
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X05278194
ISSN: 0013-161X
Abstract: In this reaction, the author concentrates on evaluating the study's broader interpretive claims. He states that the articles reviewed have the following three purposes: (1) to explore the ways in which a variety of factors shape school change over time; (2) to show how the five factors combine at key points in the story to create what Ivor Goodson (2005) calls "conjunctures"--historical convergences of the demographic elements (principals, teachers, and students) and the economic elements (reform policy and school relations, both of which the authors see as driven by economic pressures); and (3) to cast light on issues of sustainable innovation in schools in an effort to explain how innovations are lost over time and what factors might help sustain them. The author begins his review by going through the individual articles.
Abstractor: Author
Number of References: 2
Entry Date: 2005
Accession Number: EJ723353
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:In this reaction, the author concentrates on evaluating the study's broader interpretive claims. He states that the articles reviewed have the following three purposes: (1) to explore the ways in which a variety of factors shape school change over time; (2) to show how the five factors combine at key points in the story to create what Ivor Goodson (2005) calls "conjunctures"--historical convergences of the demographic elements (principals, teachers, and students) and the economic elements (reform policy and school relations, both of which the authors see as driven by economic pressures); and (3) to cast light on issues of sustainable innovation in schools in an effort to explain how innovations are lost over time and what factors might help sustain them. The author begins his review by going through the individual articles.
ISSN:0013-161X
DOI:10.1177/0013161X05278194