Schooling as a Knowledge System: Lessons from Cramim Experimental School

Autor/in	Chen, David
Titel	Schooling as a Knowledge System: Lessons from Cramim Experimental School
Quelle	In: Mind, Brain, and Education, 4 (2010) 1, S.8-19 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1751-2271
DOI	10.1111/j.1751-228X.2009.01078.x
Schlagwörter	Educational Facilities Design; Elementary Schools; Action Research; Learning Processes; Elementary School Students; Teacher Educators; Academic Achievement; Teaching Methods; Experimental Schools; Individualized Instruction; Educational Strategies; Kindergarten; School Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Projektforschung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Schulleistung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Pilot school; Model school; Modellschule; Individualisierender Unterricht; Lehrstrategie; Schuleffizienz
Abstract	This article describes an experiment utilizing a research and development strategy to design and implement an innovative school for the future. The development of Cramim Elementary School was a joint effort of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the staff of the school. The design stage involved constructing a new theoretical framework that defined school as a knowledge system, based on the state of the art, interdisciplinary study of the nature of humans, and the nature of knowledge. A new school design emerged based on this theoretical framework and the school was opened in 1995. Action research followed for 8 years and the results indicated that the school has emerged as a learning organization and successfully integrated knowledge technologies into the learning processes of both students and teachers. Differentiated teaching strategy resulted in a significant increase in achievements (+11% in maths, literacy, and science; +10% in literacy in kindergarten; persistence of higher achievement in junior high schools). The greatest beneficiaries were low-achieving students. As the school is a highly complex system, individual variables contributing to the increased effectiveness could not be isolated. The article's conclusion is that experimental schools are a productive strategy to bring about changes, but unless these schools are part and parcel of the culture of the mainstream education system culture, they are destined to remain isolated cases. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10