SOC224H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Loose Coupling
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Accountability & standardization - all teaching based on what"s on the test instead of just the curriculum because teachers are accountable to ensuring students to well on the tests. Current research on teachers shows that this happens a lot. Knowledge, curriculum and control - reading by unwin and yandell. Knowledge is viewed differently by different people. Students look at material uncritically - because they have to read and learn it to do well. Teachers and professors look at material more critically. : a form of organization in which formal structures are weakly connected to technical processes. (davies and guppy 2014) Examples: ontario curriculum- how its delivered in classroom. Strongly regulated teacher certification - weakly monitored classroom instruction. Loose coupling is essentially the idea that on the one hand are formal structures/plans/procedures and on the other are the way things are actually done. Each circle represents formal structures" in the first (loose), there is.
