The Journal of Educational Change publishes important ideas and evidence of educational change. Contributions represent a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, political science, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and administrative and organizational theory. The journal also draws attention to a broad spectrum of methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, documentary study, action research, and conceptual development.
The journal’s most recent special issue, edited by Santiago Rincón-Gallardo and Brahm Fleisch, brings together articles by reform leaders and scholars who have developed and/or studied education change efforts in various contexts: Escuela Nueva in Colombia, the Learning Community Project in Mexico, the Gauteng Language and Mathematics Strategy in South Africa, Pratham’s Literacy Strategy in India, the Ontario Literacy Strategy in Canada, and Long Beach Unified School District’s system-wide instructional strategy in California, United States.
The editors also share two commentary papers by Richard Elmore and Michael Fullan. As the editors explain in their introduction to the special issue, “The two concluding essays pull together common and divergent threads across the six cases, derive key lessons, and articulate critical perspectives for the future of improvement in the education sector. While Elmore raises fundamental questions about the very project of policy-driven improvement, Fullan argues that, though elusive, whole system improvement centered around deep learning is doable.”
To read the complete introduction, click here:“Bringing effective instructional practice to scale: An introduction.”
To find the complete special issue, click here: The Journal of Educational Change.
To read IEN posts focusing on these reforms, click on the following links:
Attempting Change from Within: Student-Centered Change in Mexico
Bringing Effective Instructional Innovation to Scale through Social Movement in Mexico and Colombia
An interview with Vicky Colbert, co-founder of Escuela Nueva (Lead the Change)
Brahm Fleisch on building a new infrastructure for learning in Gauteng, South Africa
Learning from successful education reforms in Ontario
Learning from successful education reforms in Ontario: Part II
International Education News 