63.061 - Changing the Grammar of Schooling? An Examination of Reform

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Various educational reform efforts attempt to shift us away from the century old grammar of schooling, as described by Tyack and Cuban (1995). These include personalized learning, blended schools, deeper learning schools, and more. These efforts have been written up favorably by proponents, and conversely decried by ideological opponents who see them as the harbinger of privatization and neo-liberalism. This session provide a dispassionate, research-based, analysis of the forces that inhibit and promote changing the grammar of schooling. Four empirical papers will consider changes to pedagogy and classroom practice, as well as school-level factors and the broader political ecology. Two commentaries will be provided by leaders in the field of school change.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Educational Change

Chair

• Jal David Mehta, Harvard University

Papers

• Making the Periphery the Core: Possibilities and Challenges in Public Education - Jal David Mehta, Harvard University; Sarah Melanie Fine, University of California, San Diego

• Design Thinking, Leadership, and the Grammar of Schooling: Implications for Educational Change - Lea A. Hubbard, University of San Diego; Amanda L. Datnow, University of California - San Diego

• College-for-All and the Grammar of Schooling - Karen Hunter Quartz, University of California - Los Angeles

• The Rise and Fall of New Schools in New York City and Singapore - Thomas C. Hatch, Teachers College, Columbia University; Jordan Corson, Stockton University; Sarah M Gerth van den Berg, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussants

• Michael Fullan, OISE/University of Toronto

• Larry Cuban, Stanford University