{"title":"Action Research and Systematic, Intentional Change in Teaching Practice","authors":"M. Manfra","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18821132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821132","url":null,"abstract":"Action research shifts the paradigm of contemporary educational reform by emphasizing inquiry and placing teachers at the center of research-into-practice. By situating teachers as learners, action research offers a systematic and intentional approach to changing teaching. When working as part of a community of practice, action researchers engage in sustained professional learning activities. They explore issues of everyday practice and work to bring about change. This review highlights action research studies from across four subject areas—English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies—and is premised on the notion that changing teaching practice is connected to understanding how teachers learn. Specifically, it focuses on understanding changes in teacher pedagogical content knowledge, disciplinary inquiry, and critical pedagogy through action research. Findings suggest that we must go beyond current conceptualizations of teacher learning as process-product, cognitive, and situative to view teaching as inquiry. Successful efforts to change practice through action research have demonstrated the value of engaging teachers as active participants in education research. At the same time, the field must overcome barriers including the marginalization of action research, logistical issues associated with conducting action research, and the dissemination of findings.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"163 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18821132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46344420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing How Writing Is Taught","authors":"Steve Graham","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18821125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821125","url":null,"abstract":"If students are to be successful in school, at work, and in their personal lives, they must learn to write. This requires that they receive adequate practice and instruction in writing, as this complex skill does not develop naturally. A basic goal of schooling then is to teach students to use this versatile tool effectively and flexibly. Many schools across the world do not achieve this objective, as an inordinate number of students do not acquire the writing skills needed for success in society today. One reason why this is the case is that many students do not receive the writing instruction they need or deserve. This chapter identifies factors that inhibit good writing instruction, including instructional time; teachers’ preparation and beliefs about writing; national, state, district, and school policies; and historical, social, cultural, and political influences. It then examines how we can address these factors and change classroom writing practices for the better across the world by increasing pertinent stakeholders’ knowledge about writing, with the goal of developing and actualizing visions for writing instruction at the policy, school, and classroom levels. This includes specific recommendations for helping politicians, school administrators, teachers, and the public acquire the needed know-how to make this a reality.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"277 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18821125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41528114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing Teaching Practice in P–20 Educational Settings: Introduction to the Volume","authors":"Charles Tocci, A. Ryan, T. Pigott","doi":"10.3102/0091732X19839068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X19839068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"vii - xiii"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X19839068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43743755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. J. Peurach, D. Cohen, Maxwell M. Yurkofsky, James P. Spillane
{"title":"From Mass Schooling to Education Systems: Changing Patterns in the Organization and Management of Instruction","authors":"D. J. Peurach, D. Cohen, Maxwell M. Yurkofsky, James P. Spillane","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18821131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821131","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 1990s, the logic and policies of systemic reform launched a press to coordinate the pursuit of excellence and equity in U.S. public education, with each other and with classroom instruction. There was little in that policy moment to predict that these reforms would sustain, and much to predict otherwise. Yet, nearly three decades hence, many public school districts are working earnestly to pursue the central aims of the reforms: all students engaging rich instructional experiences to master ambitious content and tasks at the same high standards. That begs a question: What happens when new educational ambitions collide with legacy educational institutions—not in a policy moment but across a historical moment? This chapter takes up that question by reviewing the rise of mass public schooling in pursuit of universal access, a historic pivot toward instructionally focused education systems in pursuit of excellence and equity, and changing patterns in instructional organization and management that follow. The lesson we draw is that, even amid incoherence and turbulence in education environments, sustained public, political, and policy support for new educational ambitions opens up new opportunities for those ambitions to manifest in the structures and the work of public school districts.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"32 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18821131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49167633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Re)framing Resistance to Culturally Relevant Education as a Multilevel Learning Problem","authors":"R. Neri, Maritza Lozano, L. Gomez","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18821120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821120","url":null,"abstract":"Despite evidence of promise, the adoption of culturally relevant educational (CRE) approaches to teaching and learning remains sporadic and underwhelming. In this chapter, we question this state of affairs by investigating teacher resistance to CRE. Through our examination of the literature, we have come to understand teacher resistance to CRE as a multilevel learning problem that stems from (a) limited understanding and belief in the efficacy of CRE and (b) a lack of know-how needed to execute it. We therefore characterize resistance as a learning problem, rather than a problem of individual compliance, and view contextual variation in its take up as an opportunity to learn. Framing teacher resistance to CRE as a multilevel learning problem provides a way forward by shifting the perception of resistance as simply negative to an understanding of resistance as a diagnostic tool, or warning signal about when, where, for whom, and why a change can be particularly difficult. By representing our review of the literature as a problem space map, we offer a tool that can be used to pinpoint, anticipate, and preemptively address the multilevel factors that contribute to teachers’ resistance to CRE.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"197 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18821120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43288688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How We Learn About Teacher Learning","authors":"M. Kennedy","doi":"10.3102/0091732X19838970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X19838970","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines research on professional development, or PD, focusing specifically on underlying assumptions about the nature of teaching and the nature of teacher learning. It examines PD programs according to their assumptions about what teachers need to learn, and it examines PD studies according to how and when they expect to see evidence of teacher learning. The chapter seeks to provide a broad view of how we think about teaching and teacher learning and to examine our underlying assumptions both about teaching and about how PD is expected to improve teaching. With respect to program effectiveness, the chapter raises questions about the extent to which effective PD programs can be replicated; with respect to our study designs, it raises questions about how teacher learning occurs and when and how we should expect to see program effects on teachers’ practices. The chapter also offers some suggestions for future research design.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"138 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X19838970","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44562137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Reflection and Generativity: Toward a Framework of Transformative Teacher Education for Diverse Learners","authors":"K. Liu, A. Ball","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18822806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18822806","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a critical and synthesizing review of the literature on issues related to preparing teachers for diverse learners from historical and theoretical standpoints, reviewing more than 50 years of calls for teacher education reform and efforts to prepare White teachers and teachers of color for racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity in schools and communities. It finds that the limited success of such efforts is the result of policy changes that overemphasize recruitment and underemphasize retention, and calls for restructuring teacher education programs and research that focuses on critical reflection and generativity that can lead to transformative practices in the classroom. The authors argue for a (re)new(ed) emphasis on community-based teacher preparation grounded in critical reflection and generativity, which facilitates and promotes transformative teacher education that prepares teachers to teach diverse student populations.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"105 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18822806","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42711874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linking Quantitative and Qualitative Network Approaches: A Review of Mixed Methods Social Network Analysis in Education Research","authors":"D. Froehlich, Sara Van Waes, Hanna Schäfer","doi":"10.3102/0091732X20903311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X20903311","url":null,"abstract":"Social network analysis (SNA) is becoming a prevalent method in education research and practice. But criticism has been voiced against the heavy reliance on quantification within SNA. Recent work suggests combining quantitative and qualitative approaches in SNA—mixed methods social network analysis (MMSNA)—as a remedy. MMSNA is helpful for addressing research questions related to the formal or structural side of relationships and networks, but it also attends to more qualitative questions such as the meaning of interactions or the variability of social relationships. In this chapter, we describe how researchers have applied and presented MMSNA in publications from the perspective of general mixed methods research. Based on a systematic review, we summarize the different applications within the field of education and learning research, point to potential shortcomings of the methods and its presentation, and develop an agenda to support researchers in conducting future MMSNA research.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"44 1","pages":"244 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X20903311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48379389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools Across Two Decades: An Interdisciplinary Review of Research","authors":"M. Thomas, Shantel D. Crosby, Judi E. Vanderhaar","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18821123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18821123","url":null,"abstract":"Attention to childhood trauma and the need for trauma-informed care has contributed to the emerging discourse in schools related to teaching practices, school climate, and the delivery of trauma-related in-service and preservice teacher education. However, though trauma-informed systems of care include schools, empirical work informing trauma-informed teaching and teacher education that is reflected back to those audiences is less established. This interdisciplinary overview and synthesis of literature examined interventions used in schools to determine the dominant framework used for promoting and practicing trauma-informed care in schools and the effectiveness of school-based supports for trauma-affected youth to identify implications for changing teaching practice. While multiple disciplines conduct research using different methodologies examining trauma-informed practices in schools, educators are underexamined in this work. Additionally, education researchers began engaging in research on trauma-informed practices in schools more recently, and as such, research emanating from education researchers comprises a small portion of this review. Drawing across the work, we offer recommendations for a more robust, interdisciplinary research agenda with the intentional purpose to change teacher practice.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"422 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18821123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42054625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Viesca, Kathryn J. Strom, Svenja Hammer, J. Masterson, C. H. Linzell, Jessica Mitchell-McCollough, Naomi Flynn
{"title":"Developing a Complex Portrait of Content Teaching for Multilingual Learners via Nonlinear Theoretical Understandings","authors":"K. Viesca, Kathryn J. Strom, Svenja Hammer, J. Masterson, C. H. Linzell, Jessica Mitchell-McCollough, Naomi Flynn","doi":"10.3102/0091732X18820910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X18820910","url":null,"abstract":"Utilizing a complex theory of teacher learning and practice, this chapter analyzes ~120 empirical studies of content teacher development (both preservice and in-service) for working with multilingual learners as well as research on content teaching for multilingual students. Our analysis identified three dimensions of quality content teaching for multilingual learners that are complex and intricately connected: context, orientations, and pedagogy. This chapter explores the results of our literature analysis and argues for improving content teaching for multilingual students through improved theoretically grounded research that embraces, explores, and accounts for the expansive complexities inherent in teacher learning and practice.","PeriodicalId":47753,"journal":{"name":"Review of Research in Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"304 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3102/0091732X18820910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44341471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}