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From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education
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- Jack Schneider
- Harvard Education PR
- Paperback
- 9781612506692
- 8.4 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches
- 0.83 pounds
- Education > Educational Policy & Reform
- English
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In From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse, education historian Jack Schneider seeks to answer this familiar and vexing question by turning it on its head. He looks at four well-known ideas that emerged from the world of scholarship--Bloom's Taxonomy, multiple intelligences, the project method, and direct instruction--and asks what we can learn from their success in influencing teachers.
Schneider identifies four key factors that help bridge the gap between research and practice: perceived significance, philosophical compatibility, occupational realism, and transportability. Through the examination of counterexamples--similar ideas of equal promise that lacked these four qualities and did not translate into practice--Schneider shows the complexity of the relationship between theory and practice in education and suggests how that tenuous connection might be strengthened to help innovations and new insights gain traction in our schools.
Author Bio
Jack Schneider, Ph.D., is a historian and policy analyst who studies the influence of politics, rhetoric, culture, and information in shaping attitudes and behaviors. His research examines how educators, policymakers, and the public develop particular views about what is true, what is effective, and what is important. Drawing on a diverse mix of methodological approaches, he has written about measurement and accountability, segregation and school choice, teacher preparation and pedagogy, and the relationship between research and practice.
His current work, on how school quality is conceptualized and quantified, has been supported by the Spencer Foundation and the Massachusetts State Legislature. The author of four books, Schneider is a regular contributor to outlets like the Washington Post and the Atlantic, and co-hosts the education policy podcast Have You Heard. He is also the co-founder and Director of Research for the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment.
Education
- Ph.D.: History of Education, (2010), Stanford University - Stanford CA
MA: American History, (2007), Stanford University - Stanford CA
BA: Political Science, (2002), Haverford College - Haverford, PA
Source: University of Massachusetts Lowell
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