Distrust and Educational Change: Overcoming Barriers to Just and Lasting Reform Schultz Katherine
Distrust and Educational Change: Overcoming Barriers to Just and Lasting Reform Schultz Katherine Distrust characterizes much of the current political discourse in the United States today. In…
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Distrust and Educational Change: Overcoming Barriers to Just and Lasting Reform Schultz Katherine
Distrust characterizes much of the current political discourse in the United States today. In Distrust and Educational Change, Katherine Schultz argues that distrust--and the failure to recognize and address it--significantly contributes to the failure of policies meant to improve educational systems. It shapes our feelings about teachers, schools, and policies.
In situations in which distrust--rather than trust--predominates, teachers and principals are reluctant to transform their educational practice.Through a set of illustrative stories, Schultz analyzes the role of distrust in the failure of educational change and transformation. The strategies the United States has chosen to enact reform engender distrust, and in so doing, undermine the conditions that enable meaningful educational change. By creating a taxonomy that includes three kinds of