Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation

This volume is the leading collection of contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of education reform and innovation. Chapters of this book integrate into their analyses the conceptual, political, pedagogical, and practical histories, tensions, and resources that have established education reform and innovation as one of the most vital and growing movements within the field of education.

Matthew Lynch is Associate Professor of Education at Langston University. He pent seven years as a K-12 teacher – an experience that gave him an intimate view of the challenges facing genuine education reform.

Contents: Matthew Lynch: What We Already Know about Education Reform in America – Patrick R. Potyondy: Reimagining Urban Education: Civil Rights, Educational Parks, and the Limits of Reform – Katie Aubrecht: Reimagining Success: Ordinary Orders and University Student «Mental Life» – Ayse Kizildag/Harun Simsek: Reflections on Educational Reforms: English LanguageTeaching in the Turkish Context of the 21st Century – Anne Marie Garth: Student Teachers as Active Participants in Schools’ Policy Contexts – Anne Marie Garth: Working in the «Wiggle Room»: A University Supervisor Supports Student Teachers’ Policy Navigation – Margaret Bertucci Hamper: «Beyond Discussion»: Basic Composition as a Social Imperative – Jim Haendiges: Creating Comic Books in the College Composition Classroom – Sheila Giesbrecht: Design Principles as a Methodology for School Reform.