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Re-creating schools : places where everyone learns and likes it /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Myers, Charles B.
Other Authors: Simpson, Douglas J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [1998]
Subjects:
Educational change > United States.
Teaching > United States.
Learning.
School management and organization > United States.
Education > Aims and objectives > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Envisioning what could be
  • Rethinking old myths
  • Why current reform, restructuring, and partnerships are not enough
  • Reform, restructuring, and partnership endeavors as starting points
  • An alternative vision
  • Context of interconnectedness
  • Revisioning schools and learning
  • Schools as morally based learning communities
  • Learning as experience based intellectual construction
  • Revisioning teaching and professional growth
  • Teaching as professional practice
  • Professional knowledge, competence, and values
  • Getting there from here
  • Pursuing images
  • A difficult journey
  • Attitude, attitude, attitude
  • Assessing current school conditions and practices
  • The nature of the journeys
  • Monitoring, assessing, and celebrating
  • A different perspective on assessment
  • Assessment using other parallel standards.