NATED (National graduate School in Educational Research) track 3, and the research group CLEG (Curriculum Studies, Educational Leadership and Governance) at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, UiO, in cooperation with ILS (Department of Teacher Education and School Research), are pleased to invite you to an academic seminar with Professor James Spillane, Northwestern University, Illinois, on the topic of:
“Government Policy, School Administrative Practice, and Teaching: Infrastructure and Practice”
Time:
- Thursday, November 7, 2013. 09.15 – 12.00: “Policy and Practice: Government Regulation, School Administrative Practice, and Teaching”
- Friday, November 8, 2013: 09.00 – 10.00: “Rethinking School Leadership: Entailments of a Distributed Perspective”
- Friday, November 8, 10.15 – 12.00: “Studying Leadership from a Distributed Perspective. Some Challenges and Findings”
Place: Room 231, Helga Engs Hus, Blindern, Oslo (except for Friday morning 9-10: Aud.1)
The two-day program will address central issues in educational policy implementation and school administration. A key aspect of the work will center on exploring relations between government policy, school administrative practice, and classroom teaching. Focusing on recent developments in the education policy sector – standards, high stakes accountability, use of performance metrics – the course will examine whether and how these shifts have penetrate schools and classrooms. Specifically, the lecture will examine how local school leaders and teachers make sense of and respond to these policy shifts and whether and how they penetrate practice in schools and classrooms. A second key aspect of the seminar will focus on school administrative practice, challenging dominant ways of conceptualizing the phenomena, considering the entailments of taking a distributed perspective to the work, and engaging with the epistemological and methodological implications of a distributed perspective. In doing so, we will compare and contrast some recent empirical findings from research and school leadership and management and discuss how the findings are a function of their epistemological and methodological approaches. Cf. https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/uv/uv/UV9343/
In order to assure capacity in the room we kindly ask you to register your attendance at toril.eggen@ils.uio.no