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    EDUCATION 361-3
    Contemporary Issues and New Developments in Teaching
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    (Problems in Implementation)
    SPRING, 1985
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    INSTRUCTOR: Marvin F. Wideen
    Wednesday, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
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    LOCATION: On Campus
    This course provides the student with an opportunity to examine problems
    and issues related to the implementation of new ideas in schools, a topic of
    concern to educators for many years. This examination will be carried out
    through selected reading, seminar activity and topical presentation. Those
    in the course, who are working in schools or some other type of institution,
    will be encouraged to examine their workplace to find successful and un-
    successful examples of implementation and to relate them to the topics being
    examined in the course.
    An important component of this course occupying four to six sessions
    will be specific training in implementation and action research designed to
    provide the teacher with competence to identify problems in her/his teaching
    and to take steps to solve them. Part of this training involves the use of
    theory, demonstration, practice and feedback related to particular problems.
    It is expected that many who enrol in the course will also be taking
    Educ. 406-5, Professional In-Service Practicum, to which many of the topics
    will be related.
    Evaluation:
    Evaluation in the course will take the form of an exit interview to
    examine the readings and seminar activity, and a final paper which may include
    some attempt made to improve practice or to implement some innovation into the
    classroom.
    Reauired Text:
    Hopkins and Wideen. New Perspectives in School Improvement.
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    EDUCATION 31-LIST OF READINGS
    LEVEL I - SCHOOL
    Chapter 4 and
    Little, J.W. "Norms of Collegiality and Experimentation: Workplace
    Conditions of School Success." American Educational Research Journal
    19(1982) : 325-340.
    Goodlad, J.I. "The School as Workplace." In
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    ffeveioQrnent, G.A.
    Griffin (Ed.). Chicago, Ill.. NSSE, 1983.
    Coleman, P. "Towards More Effective Schools:.Improving Elementary
    School Climate"
    IB School as Community_gECyice
    Chapter 11 and
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    Fullan, N. Chapter 12
    in
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    g_pf_cjgk_cbg. Toronto,
    Ont.. : OISE Press, 1982.
    Ooodlad, J. "An Ecological Version of Accountability".y_i-jg
    Practice 18 (1979): 308-315.
    IC School as Instructional-Setting
    Murnane, R.J. "Interpreting the Evidence on School Effectiveness".
    Teachers College
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    Record 83(1) (1981): 19-35.
    Stallings, J. "Allocated Academic Learning Time Revisited, or Beyond
    Time on Task. Educational
    Researcher
    L-2-1129
    0):
    11-16.
    ID School as Institution
    Do".
    Phi Delta
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    p
    n
    64 (1981): 178-182.
    Lortie., D.C. Chapter 1 in School-Teacher. Chicago, Ill..: The
    University of Chicago Press, 1975.
    LEVEL II: SCHOOL DISTRICT
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    ColemanP. and LaRocque; L. "Economies of Scale Revisited:School
    District Operating Costs in British Columbia; 1972-1982" Journal Of
    Educ'cional Finance
    Coleman P. "Power Diffusion in Educational Governance". In
    J.
    Wallin
    (Ed.) The _ Politics
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    Education. Edmonton,
    Alta.:
    CSSEq 1977;
    79-89.
    IIC School
    District as Instructional Setting
    Coleman, P. "School Districts and Student Achievment: A Preliminary
    Analysis"
    lID School
    District as Institution
    Johnson; S.M. "Performance-Based Staff Layoffs in the Public Schools:
    Implementation and Outcomes". In J.V. Baldridge and T. Deal
    (Eds.)
    The
    Dynamics of Organizational Change in Education.Berkeley, Ca.:
    McCutchan, 1983, 426-450.
    March, M.E., and Miklos, E. "Dynamics of Control over Educational
    Decisions" ?
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    Educati
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    gç, 29(1), 1983;
    1-14.
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    IIIA Province as Worknjggg
    Chapter 7 and
    Cresswell, A.M. "Power, Collective Bargaining and School Governance".
    Education and Urban_Society, 12(4), 1980, 466-485
    IIIB Province as Community_ggLyice
    Chapter 9 and Chapter 12
    IIIC Province as Instructional Setting
    Chapter 8 and
    Mitchell, D. and Encarnation, D.J. "Alternative State Policy
    Mechanisms for Influencing School Performance". Educational Researcher
    13(5); 1984, 411.
    IIID Province as Institution
    Chapter 2
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