Public Schools That Work (eBook, ePUB)

Creating Community
Redaktion: Smith, Gregory A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative elementary and secondary schools across the country recount their attempts to create systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages, involve parents and community leaders in decisions related to the life of their schools and involve students in their communities by encouraging participation in a variety of civic projects. By being rooted in their local social environment, these schools demonstrate the transformative potential of education to return power and authority to those individuals attempting to reconstruct and humanize the institutions within which they must learn and teach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136642401
• Artikelnr.: 40467745

Autorenporträt

Gregory A. Smith is Assistant Professor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Educationand Environment: Learning to Live with Limits and coauthor of Reducing the Risk: Schools as Communities ofSupport.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Schools and the Maintenance of Community
Gregory A. Smith; Chapter 1 Community: An Alternative School Accomplishment
Mary Anne Raywid; Chapter 2 Creating a School That Honors the Traditions of a Culturally Diverse Student Body: La Escuela Fratney
Robert Peterson; Chapter 3 The Denali Project
David Hagstrom; Chapter 4 Building Community in an Alternative Secondary School
Dave Lehman; Chapter 5 Building a Community by Involving Students in the Governance of the School
Tom Gregory
Mary Ellen Sweeney; Chapter 6 Empowering Students to Shape Their Own Learning
Arnold Langberg; Chapter 7 Linking Classrooms and Communities: The Health and Media Academies in Oakland
Larry F. Guthrie
Grace Pung Guthrie; Chapter 8 International High School: How Work Works
Terrill Bush; Chapter 9 Turning In: Community Schools as Enclaves
Robert B. Everhart; Chapter 10 Schools in Communities: New Ways to Work Together
Toni Hass;