{"product_id":"normal-accident-theory-of-education","title":"Normal Accident Theory of Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called ‘reform’ discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about the nuances and realistic limitations in the institutional order of school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book argues that as regulation of schools moves further up the bureaucratic hierarchy (first to state departments of education then to the national department of education) the legal and institutional requirements get more intensive but less concretely useful in class rooms. This bureaucratization serves to ‘tighten’ the organizational environment, thereby increasing the risk of normal accidents. The increasing governmental management, in other words, makes it more likely that schools will ‘fail’ to meet their goals. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyses of education are too often developed for public consumption in a fast-moving political world. This book examines some of the deeper organizational reasons why things don’t work so well in school, as well as a look at some of things that do work. Most importantly, the book will explain how the social and cultural expectations of what schools can do may create unrealistic hopes. We, as a society, and schools, as institutions, embrace these unreasonably high hopes at our collective peril. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCheck out Andrew's latest interview with Seattle Radio- http:\/\/kiroradio.com\/listen\/9972862\/\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54261310947672,"sku":"9781475806588","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781475806588_943b21fa-941d-426c-8857-c25c28c960f9.jpg?v=1769796911","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/normal-accident-theory-of-education","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}