Educational research of recent times has uncovered some flaws in earlier thinking about the limited role that teachers and schools could play in effecting change in student achievement. Earlier research seemed to condemn teaching and schooling to a marginal role compared to the overwhelming role played by the home and student background. Researchers like Talcott Parsons suggested that families were “… factories which produce human personality” (Parsons Bales, 1955:16), to the point that little else counted. In similar fashion, Christopher Jencks concluded that “… the character of a school’s output depends largely on a single input, namely the characteristics of the entering children” (1972: 256).
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Lovat, T. (2009). Values Education and Quality Teaching: Two Sides of the Learning Coin. In: Lovat, T., Toomey, R. (eds) Values Education and Quality Teaching. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9962-5_1
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