Empowering Teachers and Parents

School Restructuring Through the Eyes of Anthropologists
Herausgeber: Hess, G. Alfred Jr.

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Produktbeschreibung

A much-needed examination of the impact on teachers and parents of the effort to improve our schools through restructuring, this book looks at professionalization and parent empowerment programs from the ground level rather than from the large-scale policy level. The editor, active in both policy setting and monitoring implementation, approaches the subject with an overarching view that weaves together a set of diverse case studies that examine some of the most notable efforts in this area of school reform. The first section demonstrates the tremendous difficulties involved in attempting to reshape the culture of public school teaching, noting both institutional resistance to change and the personal resistance of the professionals who are, in theory, being empowered through this approach. The second section details the problems of launching parent empowerment opportunities, in a large urban setting, and a contrasting case examines the choice of enrollment option. Here, too, these studies examine the effectiveness of these programs. The conclusion reflects on the opportunities such innovations provide for researchers and assesses the importance of such research in shaping the innovations themselves through evaluations while they are in process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780897892766
• ISBN-10: 0897892763
• Artikelnr.: 21487099

Autorenporträt

G Alfred Hess

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Examining School Restructuring Efforts by G. Alfred Hess, Jr.
Empowering Teachers Work That Is Real: Why Teachers Should Be Empowered by
William Ayers Rural Science and Mathematics Education: Empowerment Through
Self-Reflection and Expanding Curricular Alternatives by Mary Jo McGee
Brown The Dangers of Assuming a Consensus for Change: Some Examples from
the Coalition of Essential Schools by Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J.
McQuillan Empowerment of Teachers in Dade County's School-Based Management
Pilot by Marjorie K. Hanson, Don R. Morris, and Robert A. Collins Conflict
in Restructuring the Principal-Teacher Relationship in Memphis by Carol
Plata Etheridge and Thomas W. Collins Rural Responses to Kentucky's
Education Reform Act by Pamelia Coe and Patricia J. Kannapel Empowering
Parents The Case for Parent and Community Involvement by Donald R. Moore
Who's Making What Decisions: Monitoring Authority Shifts in Chicago School
Reform by G. Alfred Hess, Jr. and John Q. Easton School Reform in East
Harlem: Alternative Schools vs. "Schools of Choice" by Diane Harrington and
Peter W. Cookson, Jr. Anthropological Perspectives The Role of
Anthropologists in Restructuring Schools by Thomas G. Carroll Critical
Friends in the Frey: An Experiment in Applying Critical Ethnography to
School Restructuring by John M. Watkins Through the Eyes of Anthropologists
by G. Alfred Hess, Jr. Bibliography Index