Translation: An alternative framework for conceptualizing and supporting school reform efforts

Educational Theory

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-231

  Cook Sather, Alison ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 66449114046     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2009.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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1. John Sylvester Lofty, Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk About Standards, Practice, and Professionalism (New York: Peter Lang, 2006); Karen Hammerness, Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes: Professional Ideals and Classroom Practices (New York: Teachers College Press, 2006); and Mary Kennedy, Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005). These works will be cited in the text as QW, TE, and IT, respectively, for all subsequent references.
2. David Tyack and Larry Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995), 85.
3. Raymond E. Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).
4. Tyack and Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia, 86.
5. For more on this, see Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency; Alison Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); Alison Cook-Sather, "Movements of Mind: The Matrix, Metaphors, and Re-imagining Education," Teachers College Record 105, no. 6 (2003): 946-977; Gary D. Fenstermacher and Jonas F. Soltis, Approaches to Teaching (New York: Teachers College Press, 1992); Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton, Teaching to Change the World, 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007); Phillip C. Schlechty, Schools for the Twenty-First Century: Leadership Imperatives for Educational Reform (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991); and Joel Spring, The Sorting Machine: National Educational Policy Since 1945 (New York: McKay, 1976).
6. See Schlechty, Schools for the Twenty-First Century, 23; Fenstermacher and Soltis, Approaches to Teaching, 16; and Sara Efron and Pamela Bolotin Joseph, "Reflections in a Mirror: Metaphors of Teachers in Teaching," in Images of Schoolteachers in America, 2nd ed., eds. Pamela M. Joseph and Gail E. Burnaford (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2001), 78.
7. Fenstermacher and Soltis, Approaches to Teaching, 16.
8. Webster's New International Dictionary, 2nd ed., unabridged (Springfield, Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam, 1951).
9. Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation; Cook-Sather, "Movements of Mind"; and Alison Cook-Sather, "Production, Cure, or Translation? Rehumanizing Education and the Roles of Teacher and Student in U.S. Schools and Universities," Forum 48, no. 3 (2006): 319-326.
10. Michael Fullan, Change Forces (London: Falmer, 1993).
11. Schlechty, Schools for the Twenty-First Century, 23; and Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation, 44.
12. Maxine Greene, Dialectic of Freedom (New York: Teachers College Press, 1988), 23.
13. Jean Anyon, Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement (New York: Routledge, 2005), 178-179.
14. Alison Cook-Sather, "Authorizing Students' Perspectives: Toward Trust, Dialogue, and Change in Education," Educational Researcher 31, no. 4 (May 2002): 3-14;
15. Alison Cook-Sather, "Re(in)forming the Conversations: Student Position, Power, and Voice in Teacher Education," Radical Teacher 64 (2002): 21-28;
16. Frederick Erickson and Jeffrey Shultz, "Students' Experience of Curriculum," in Handbook of Research on Curriculum, ed. Philip W. Jackson (New York: Macmillan, 1992);
17. Michael Fielding, "Students as Radical Agents of Change," Journal of Educational Change 2, no. 3 (2001): 123-141;
18. Michael Fullan, The New Meaning of Educational Change (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991);
19. Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991);
20. Benjamin Levin, "Putting Students at the Centre of Education Reform," Journal of Educational Change 1, no. 2 (2000): 155-172;
21. Jean Rudduck, Roland Chaplain, and Gwen Wallace, School Improvement: What Can Pupils Tell Us? (London: David Fulton, 1996)
22. Lawrence A. Stenhouse, "The Aims of the Secondary School," in Authority, Education and Emancipation (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983).
23. Ira Shor, cited in Michael O'Loughlin, "Daring the Imagination: Unlocking Voices of Dissent and Possibility in Teaching," Theory into Practice 43, no. 2 (1995): 107-116.
24. Michael Fielding, "Radical Collegiality: Affirming Teaching as an Inclusive Professional Practice," Australian Educational Researcher 26, no. 2 (1999 21.
25. Efron and Joseph, "Reflections in a Mirror," 78.
26. Quoted in Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation, 45.
27. Efron and Joseph, "Reflections in a Mirror," 78.
28. John Dewey, quoted in Tyack and Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia, 85.
29. John Dewey, Experience and Education (1938; repr. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 49.
30. Cook-Sather, "Authorizing Students' Perspectives," 3. See also Anyon, Radical Possibilities; Fielding, "Students as Radical Agents of Change"; Levin, "Putting Students at the Centre of Education Reform"; Beth C. Rubin and Elena M. Silva, eds., Critical Voices in School Reform: Students Living Through Change (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003); Jean Rudduck, "Student Voice, Student Engagement and School Reform," in International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School, eds. Dennis Thiessen and Alison Cook-Sather (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007); and John Smyth, "Toward the Pedagogically Engaged School: Listening to Student Voice as a Positive Response to Disengagement and 'Dropping Out'?" in International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School, eds. Thiessen and Cook-Sather.
31. Rudduck, "Student Voice, Student Engagement and School Reform," 587.
32. Cook-Sather, "Re(in)forming the Conversations"; Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation; and Cook-Sather, "Production, Cure, or Translation?"
33. Alison Cook-Sather, "What Would Happen If We Treated Students as Those with Opinions that Matter? The Benefits to Principals and Teachers of Supporting Youth Engagement in School," NASSP Bulletin 91, no. 4 (2007): 352.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Dennis Thiessen and Alison Cook-Sather, eds., International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007).
37. Joe L. Kincheloe, "Clarifying the Purpose of Engaging Students as Researchers," 771; and Michelle Fine, Maria Elena Torre, April Burns, and Yasser A. Payne, "Youth Research/Participatory Methods for Reform," 809, both in International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School, eds. Thiessen and Cook-Sather.
38. Tyack and Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia, 86.
39. Bob Fecho, "Is This English?" Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom (New York: Teachers College Press, 2004); Michelle Fine, ed., Chartering Urban School Reform: Reflections on Public High Schools in the Midst of Change (New York: Teachers College Press, 1994); and Carol D. Lee, Culture, Literacy, and Learning: Taking Bloom in the Midst of the Whirlwind (New York: Teachers College Press, 2007).
40. Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation.
41. Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation; Cook-Sather, "Production, Cure, or Translation?"; and Alison Cook-Sather, "Translating Researchers: Re-imagining the Work of Investigating Students' Experiences in School," in International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School, eds. Thiessen and Cook-Sather.
42. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civil Courage, trans. Patrick Clarke (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
43. Gregory Rabassa, "No Two Snowflakes Are Alike: Translation as Metaphor," in The Craft of Translation, eds. John Biguenet and Rainer Schulte (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 7 and 12.
44. Cook-Sather, Education Is Translation, 28.