Developing a Multiperspective Interpretive Framework for School Reform Research

• In Event: Moscone Center West Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Everyone Implements Reform: Perspectives on Implementation in Schools

Abstract

This paper is based on empirical research on the effects of the introduction of standardized high school exit exams on teaching practice in Austria. In it, I develop an interpretive framework that draws on education governance, the Grammar of Schooling, and German Didaktik to analyze the study’s findings. I demonstrate how these three approaches complement each other and how this framework is a useful instrument in understanding the effects of education reforms.

Author

• Stefan Michael Becks, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences