ERIC Number: EJ1263341
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1927-6117
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Ensuring Success in School Is about More than Getting A's: Layered Stories
McKamey, Corinne
in education, v19 n1 p19-33 Spr 2013
I begin this paper with a reader's theatre text that represents the multiple perspectives of a student, teacher, student teacher, and administrator about a high school class schedule change. In presenting a text that portrays multiple points of view upon what would seem to be an everyday experience in an urban high school, I aim to show the complexity of how different people in different roles respond and manage their context in response to a single policy decision. After the reader's theater and before I continue with the rest of the paper, I invite you the reader to consider your interpretations of and associations with the text. I conclude by arguing that we need to be attuned to the complex ways that policy decisions inform and constrain the actions of people within educational contexts.
Descriptors: High School Students, Scheduling, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Theater Arts, Urban Schools, English Language Learners, Context Effect, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Environment, Teaching Conditions
University of Regina, Faculty of Education. Education Building, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, SK S4S 0A2. e-mail: editor@ineducation.ca; Web site: https://ineducation.ca/ineducation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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