CSTEEP Lecture Series: Monday, March 21, 2016 from 12pm1.15pm in McGuinn 334
Presentation by Brahm Fleisch, Professor of Education Policy
and Head of the Division of Education Leadership and Policy
Studies at the Wits School of Education, University of
Witwatersrand Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa on
"System-wide Instructional Reform in the Global South."
Abstract
At the core of the new knowledge in the field of educational change are case
studies of high-performing systems in the Global North and East Asia.
However, the knowledge base for low-performing systems in the Global
South is very limited. This presentation draws on a complex instructional
reform change journey in South Africa. It explores how contextual dynamics
shape the meaning of state-led improvement, system leadership,
policy/program coherence, performativity, instructional coaching,
prescriptive lesson planning, professional accountability, and emotions in
change.
Brahm Fleisch is a prolific scholar whose current research and professional
work focuses on successful system-wide instructional reform. He has also
held the position of a district director in the newly formed Gauteng
Department of Education (1995-2000). Since 2011, he has served as the
advisor to the Gauteng Department of Education and the National Education
Collaboration Trust.