Lisa Rosen – författare

The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and civic flourishing for all children. This book shows what can happen when you rethink schools from the ground up with precisely these goals in mind, approaching educational inequality and its entrenched causes head on, student by student. Drawing on an in-depth study of real schools on the South Side of Chicago, Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Lisa Rosen argue that effectively meeting the challenge of educational inequality requires a complete reorganization of institutional structures as well as wholly new norms, values, and practices that are animated by a relentless commitment to student learning.They examine a model that pulls teachers out of their isolated classrooms and places them into collaborative environments where they can share their curricula, teaching methods, and assessments of student progress with a school-based network of peers, parents, and other professionals. Within this structure, teachers, school leaders, social workers, and parents collaborate to ensure that every child receives instruction tailored to his or her developing skills. Cooperating schools share new tools for assessment and instruction and become sites for the training of new teachers. Parents become respected partners, and expert practitioners work with researchers to evaluate their work and refine their models for educational organization and practice. The authors show not only what such a model looks like but the dramatic results it produces for student learning and achievement. The result is a fresh, deeply informed, and remarkably clear portrait of school reform that directly addresses the real problems of educational inequality.

The challenge of overcoming educational inequality in the United States can sometimes appear overwhelming, and great controversy exists as to whether or not elementary schools are up to the task, whether they can ameliorate existing social inequalities and initiate opportunities for economic and civic flourishing for all children. This book shows what can happen when you rethink schools from the ground up with precisely these goals in mind, approaching educational inequality and its entrenched causes head on, student by student. Drawing on an in-depth study of real schools on the South Side of Chicago, Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Lisa Rosen argue that effectively meeting the challenge of educational inequality requires a complete reorganization of institutional structures as well as wholly new norms, values, and practices that are animated by a relentless commitment to student learning.They examine a model that pulls teachers out of their isolated classrooms and places them into collaborative environments where they can share their curricula, teaching methods, and assessments of student progress with a school-based network of peers, parents, and other professionals. Within this structure, teachers, school leaders, social workers, and parents collaborate to ensure that every child receives instruction tailored to his or her developing skills. Cooperating schools share new tools for assessment and instruction and become sites for the training of new teachers. Parents become respected partners, and expert practitioners work with researchers to evaluate their work and refine their models for educational organization and practice. The authors show not only what such a model looks like but the dramatic results it produces for student learning and achievement. The result is a fresh, deeply informed, and remarkably clear portrait of school reform that directly addresses the real problems of educational inequality.

Diversity is neither a fixed category nor an exclusively contemporary concern: its meanings and manifestations are historically contingent and subject to negotiation. Combining conceptual inquiry with case studies, this volume examines how diversity has been understood from the early modern period to the present and how forms of difference acquire social significance. Contributors draw on philosophy, art history, educational sciences, linguistics, literary and media studies. The first section rethinks theories and politics of difference. The second analyzes representations of dis/ability in art and literature from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. The third develops the innovative concept of ‘fragile participation’ as a framework for examining conditions of belonging and agency in contemporary education, literature and film. The final section explores luxury as a site where notions of difference, identity and value are negotiated from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first.By tracing the production and transformation of diversity across historical periods and disciplinary contexts, the volume demonstrates how historical inquiry and contemporary case studies can inform one another. It thus offers new perspectives on diversity as both a conceptual framework and a historically variable social phenomenon.

Das Buch geht aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, Praxis- und Forschungsprojekte der Frage nach, inwiefern sozialen Ungleichheiten durch die Gestaltung und Erforschung inklusiver Bildungsprozesse und -strukturen begegnet werden kann. Die Zusammenführung formaler, non-formaler und informeller Bildung entfaltet dabei ein Verständnis von inklusiver Bildung, das auf die Überwindung der Dominanz formaler Kontexte zugunsten der Aufwertung des stärker selbstgestaltenden und partizipativen Potenzials non-formaler und informeller Prozesse abzielt. An dieser Stelle begegnen sich Soziale Arbeit und Erziehungswissenschaft im Inklusionsdiskurs. Nicht zuletzt für deren Kooperation in der Gestaltung inklusiver Bildung soll der vorliegende Band neue Impulse geben.

Das Buch geht aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Disziplinen, Praxis- und Forschungsprojekte der Frage nach, inwiefern sozialen Ungleichheiten durch die Gestaltung und Erforschung inklusiver Bildungsprozesse und -strukturen begegnet werden kann. Die Zusammenführung formaler, non-formaler und informeller Bildung entfaltet dabei ein Verständnis von inklusiver Bildung, das auf die Überwindung der Dominanz formaler Kontexte zugunsten der Aufwertung des stärker selbstgestaltenden und partizipativen Potenzials non-formaler und informeller Prozesse abzielt. An dieser Stelle begegnen sich Soziale Arbeit und Erziehungswissenschaft im Inklusionsdiskurs. Nicht zuletzt für deren Kooperation in der Gestaltung inklusiver Bildung soll der vorliegende Band neue Impulse geben.

The volume aims at analysing the migration processes of families from Greece following the financial crisis from 2009 onwards. It investigates whether and to what extent this ‘new’ and international migration represents a new phenomenon when compared to the so-called migration of guest-workers during the sixties.

This open access book is designed as an international anthology on the broader subject of inclusion, education, social justice and translanguaging. Prefaced by Ofelia García, the volume unites conceptional and empirical contributions focusing on various actors within educational institutions, from early childhood to secondary education and teacher training, while offering insights into multiple European and North-American educational systems.