Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Presents how to change whole schools systems towards more innovative and meaningful learning and instruction
- Discusses how small scale projects designed to foster student's thinking can be scaled to large school systems
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this.
Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it discusses general issues pertaining to implementing deep, large-scale changes in the core of learning and instruction. The book emphasizes challenges related to professional development, assessment, achievement gaps, and the tension between knowledge and skills in 21st century curricula. It summarizes insights the author has gained from approximately 25 years of engaging with these topics both as an academic and as a practitioner who led a national change process.
With a Forward by David Perkins
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Anat Zohar holds the Besen Family Chair at the Seymour Fox School of Education, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is the director of the Center for Teachers’ Learning and Development at the Hebrew University. Her main research fields are the development of students' higher order thinking and metacognition, teachers' knowledge and professional development, and the challenges involved in scaling up instructional innovations across whole school systems. She has over 70 publications, including 8 books. Between 2006 -2009 she served as the Director of Pedagogical Affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Education, and led a pedagogical reform aimed at teaching for higher order thinking and deep understanding throughout the Israeli school curricula (k-12). In 2009-2010 she was a member in the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Since 2010 she is a faculty member in the Mandel Leadership Institute. She is currently chairing the Israeli committee “Adapting Curricula and Study Materials for the 21st Century”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scaling-up Higher Order Thinking
Book Subtitle: Demonstrating a Paradigm for Deep Educational Change
Authors: Anat Zohar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15967-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15966-4Published: 31 May 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15969-5Published: 31 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15967-1Published: 30 May 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education, Teaching and Teacher Education