Designing better schools for culturally and linguistically diverse children : a science of performance model for research / / by Stuart McNaughton

• Autore: McNaughton S (Stuart)
• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.82900993
• Soggetto topico: Children of minorities - Education - New Zealand; School improvement programs - New Zealand; Education - Research
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ongoing optimism, persistent pessimism and their roots -- Weighing up the evidence -- Explaining our limitations -- Optimism in the detail -- Problems for an optimist: Matthew effects -- What is being effective?: acceleration and other problems -- Summer learning -- Sustaining change -- Scaling up change -- Nested and coherent systems -- A science of performance -- Notes on a cautious optimism: making more effective systems.
• Sommario/riassunto: How can schools be better designed to enable equitable academic outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse children from communities lacking in economic, political and social power? Putting forward a robust 'science of performance' model of school change based on a specified process of research and development in local contexts, this book:lays out the traditions of optimism and pessimism about effective schooling for at-risk students reviews the international and national evidence for the effectiveness of schools and school systems in reducing disparities in
• Titolo autorizzato: Designing better schools for culturally and linguistically diverse children
• ISBN: 1-283-12702-4; 9786613127020; 1-136-85917-9; 0-203-83582-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461314903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II