Challenges of standards-based reform: The example of California's science content standards and textbook adoption process.

Autor/inn/en	Bianchini, Julie A.; Kelly, Gregory J.
Titel	Challenges of standards-based reform: The example of California's science content standards and textbook adoption process.
Quelle	In: Science education, 87 (2003) 3, S. 378-389Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8326
Schlagwörter	Schule; Didaktik; Curriculum; Unterrichtspraxis; Unterrichtsmaterial; Unterricht; Naturwissenschaften; Entwicklung; Handreichung; Kritik; Standard
Abstract	In this paper, we debate the strengths and limitations of standards-based science education reform in the United States. Our purpose is to raise questions and encourage conversations about the mis/uses of standards to shape science curriculum and instructional practices at both state and national levels. We begin by examining the case of California: California recently developed science content standards and used these standards to guide the development, assessment, and adoption of K-8 science instructional materials, a process in which we participated. We offer substantive critique of the California standards themselves and the ways such standards narrowly frame science education for the state's teachers and students. We then move to more general challenges posed by fashioning standards as instruments of reform: the proliferation of increasingly unwieldy instructional materials and the muting of teachers' voices in local decision-making processes. While we do not call for the elimination of standards, we argue for greater awareness of the challenges in using standards to achieve science education reform and for renewed effort to include teachers in the translation of standards into local, responsive practice.
Erfasst von	Arbeitsgruppe Didaktik der Physik, Universität Kassel
Update	2005/3