Improving the professional knowledge base for education: Using knowledge management (KM) and Web 2.0 tools

Improving education systems is an elusive goal. Despite considerable investment, international studies such as the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) project and the McKinsey Report How the world’s best performing schools come out on top indicate that improving teacher quality is more important than increased financial investment. Both reports challenge governments, academics and practitioners to adopt new ways of sharing and building knowledge. This paper makes the case for national education systems to adopt tried and tested knowledge management and web 2.0 tools used by other sectors and highlights the neglected potential of teacher educators as agents for improvement

New directions for program evaluation

Publ. comme no 45, spring 1990 de la revue New directions for program evaluationBibliogr. à la fin des textesIndex: p. 77-7

Sirotnik, Kenneth A., Critical Inquiry: A Paradigm for Praxis, pp. 243-258 in Edmund C. Short, ed., Forms of Curriculum Inquiry . Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991.*

Describes the processes of critical inquiry in curriculum

Sirotnik, Kenneth A., and Associates, Building Better Programs I: Renewing Teacher Education and Partner Schools, pp. 99-139 and Change Happens, pp. 163 -187 in Kenneth A. Sirotnik and Associates, Renewing Schools and Teacher Education: An Odyssey in Educational Change. Washington, DC: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2001.

Reports a qualitative evaluation study of a 15-year series of efforts by John Goodlad\u27s Center for Educational Renewal and the Institute for Educational Inquiry to facilitate and study changes in curriculum and related matters among partnered schools and teacher education colleges

Sirotnik, Kenneth A. Evaluation in the Ecology of Schooling: The Process of School Renewal, pp. 41-62 in John I. Goodlad, ed., The Ecology of School Renewal , Eighty-sixth NSSE Yearbook, Part I. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987.*

Conceptualizes a process of critical evaluative inquiry that is suitable for school renewal projects

Sirotnik, Kenneth A., What Goes on in Classrooms? Is This the Way We Want It? pp. 56-70 in Landon E. Beyer and Michael W. Apple, eds., The Curriculum: Problems, Politics, and Possibilities . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Reports evidence from Goodlad\u27s Study of Schooling and asks whether this is what we want; makes a plea for critical inquiry in schools

Revista de educación

Se presenta la idea de que sean los educadores en sus escuelas los que lleven a cabo los cambios importantes en el sistema educativo. Se pretende defender la idea de que la escuela es al mismo tiempo objetivo y protagonista del cambio y la mejora educativa, a pesar de la importancia de los recursos y los colectivos que rodean las escuelas. Esta idea se desarrolla a través de la epistemología, la teoría de la organización social y la experiencia empírica. Para atender la dinámica de estos cambios se expone la estructura y la función de las escuelas como organizaciones sociales. Y, por último, se discuten las implicaciones prácticas que tienen estos cambios en las escuelas.Ministerio Educación CIDEBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 Planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]

Sirotnik, Kenneth A., and Jeannie Oakes, Critical Inquiry for School Renewal: Liberating Theory and Practice, pp. 3-93 in Kenneth A. Sirotnik and Jeannie Oakes, eds., Critical Perspectives on the Organization and Improvement of Schooling . Boston: Kluwer/Nijhoff, 1986.*

Traces the origins and educational application of critical inquiry methods

Sirotnik, Kenneth A., and Jeannie Oakes, eds., Critical Perspectives on the Organization and Improvement of Schooling . Hingham, MA: Kluwer-Nijoff, 1986.

Presents a series of articles on several aspects of school reform and improvement written from a critical perspective

Sirotnik, Kenneth A., and Roger Soder, eds., The Beat of a Different Drummer: Essays on Educational Renewal in Honor of John I. Goodlad. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.

Presents 20 chapters on John Goodlad\u27s thought and work in curriculum, teacher education, and educational renwal; ends with an extensive bibliography of Goodlad\u27s writings