Overview
- Provides a comprehensive resource for understanding the merits and demerits of different policy steps in education
- Maps current controversies surrounding education policy across a large number of developed countries
- Offers theoretical, terminological, and socio-historical analysis of current directions, opportunities, and challenges
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This book reviews one hundred years of educational reforms worldwide. Characterized by a tension between governing public and professional forces, the waves of educational reform reflect myriad efforts to define and fulfill professional and public expectations for the world of education. The first wave of reform, based on “progressive” ideals, spread across the globe after World War I, striving to place the student at the center of the education process and respond to the diverse needs of children and youth in a world that included massive population shifts. The second wave nearly obliterated the ideals of the progressive movement that had prevailed for sixty years. Drawing its principles from the business world, the second wave imposed competition, uniform standards, and measurable outputs on students, teachers, and schools, even at the cost of harming at-risk populations and encouraging the infiltration of private sector values into public education systems.
The third wave was launched at the turn of the twenty-first century. Seeking to adjust instructional methods to modern reality, this reform rejected standardized curricula in favor of develo** skills such as independent thinking, curiosity, innovation, collaboration among learners, and the ability to mine and process information.
Book I reviews the three waves of reform in the United States, England, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Finland. Book II focuses on Israel’s education system — past, present, and future.
The third wave was launched at the turn of the twenty-first century. Seeking to adjust instructional methods to modern reality, this reform rejected standardized curricula in favor of develo** skills such as independent thinking, curiosity, innovation, collaboration among learners, and the ability to mine and process information.
Book I reviews the three waves of reform in the United States, England, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Finland. Book II focuses on Israel’s education system — past, present, and future.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Book I: The Three Waves of Reform Worldwide
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The Second Wave of Reform: The Standards Movement
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The Third Wave: New Learning Skills
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The First Wave of Reform
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The Second Wave of Reform in Israel
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Ami Volansky was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, School of Education until his retirement in 2015. His research focuses on education policy including school reforms, school effectiveness, school-based management and higher-education policy. His recent books include Academia in a Changing Environment: Higher Education Policy in Israel 1952–2004 (2005); The Pendulum Syndrome: Centralisation and Decentralisation of Education in England and Wales (2003); School-Based Management: An International Perspective (2003), co-edited with Isaac Friedman, and Israel's Higher Education System 2000-2022, Politicization, Science and Society (2023). Professor Volansky has served as the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Education, the Deputy Director General for Policy Planning at the Ministry of Education, and as the advisor on higher education policy of four Ministers of Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Three Waves of Reform in the World of Education 1918 – 2018
Book Subtitle: Students of Yesterday, Students of Tomorrow
Authors: Ami Volansky
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5771-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5770-3Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5773-4Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5771-0Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 480
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International and Comparative Education, History of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership