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The Global Fourth Way
The Quest for Educational Excellence
First Edition
- Andy Hargreaves - Boston College, USA, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Canada
- Dennis Shirley - Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA, Boston College, USA
November 2012 | 256 pages | Corwin
This book builds upon the authors' recently published The Fourth Way by helping educators to focus on the nitty-gritty, boiler-room challenges of change leaders and the expected obstacles they must anticipate, engage, and overcome to enact fourth way strategies and values. It will be of interest to all educational leaders who seek to combine inspiring and visionary leadership with the practical skills and street-level political acumen to make the changes that have to happen to improve education today.
This book will operationalize fourth way ideas so that readers can use these new examples, vignettes and strategies to implement their own action plans to achieve positive and sustainable reform. Success stories from around the globe will illustrate how small and large systems are now working with fourth way premises to promote learning and achievement.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. The Crisis of Educational Change
2. The Paradox of Innovation and Improvement
3. Finland: Professionalism, Participation, and Persistence
4. Singapore: Innovation, Communication, and Paradox
5. Alberta: Innovation With Improvement
6. Ontario: Inclusion, Interaction, and Local Diversity
7. England: Inspiration, Responsiveness, and Sustainability
8. California: Professional Organizing for Public Good
9. Pointers for Practice: The Global Fourth Way in Action
Endnotes
Index
Did not cover enough of the content for the course I am teaching. Has been recommended as a "should buy" book for my students.
Faculty of Education, Univ of Lethbridge
September 30, 2013