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DTSTART:20141202T180500Z
DTEND:20141202T190000Z
DTSTAMP:20260419T161611Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:'Real School' :  The tension of standard structures and varied
  social processes in schools\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Mary 
 Metz\, School of Education
DESCRIPTION:Over the last century and a half many aspects of schooling
 \, especially secondary schooling\, have been standardized and their f
 orm\, despite some changes\, has been remarkably resilient.  Patterns 
 of legitimate\, “real” school are deeply embedded in social expect
 ations.  At the same time\, we know that effective teachers create rou
 tines and atmospheres that vary widely. Some individual students thriv
 e better with some approaches\, others with others.  Further\, (though
  less well documented) community context and students’ social class 
 and ethnicity have a big effect on what happens in classrooms.   Nonet
 heless\, over the last 35 years\, there has been increasing societal p
 ressure to standardize the substance and practice of K-12 education ye
 t further. This presentation explores the reasons for the persistent t
 ension between standardization of routines and the need for wide varia
 tion and flexibility in actual instruction inside the classroom.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3489
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