Learning by Heart
Published on 6. March 2001
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-7879-5543-4 (ISBN)
Description
A decade after publication of his best-selling book, Barth returns to the schoolhouse. Drawing from a career committed to building schools rich in community, learning, and leadership, he shows how to accomplish the most difficult task of school reform-transforming a school's culture so that it will be hospitable to human learning. In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-5543-4 (9780787955434)
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Person
ROLAND S. BARTH is one of the country's most renowned educators and the author of the best--selling Jossey--Bass book Improving Schools from Within (over 100,000 copies sold). He has been a public school teacher and principal, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and member of the faculty of Harvard University where he founded the Harvard Principals' Center and the International Network of Principals' Centers.
Content
Foreword (Deborah Meier). Acknowledgements. The Author. Introduction. 1. Thinking Otherwise. 2. Culture in Question. 3. A Community of Learners. 4. Information Rich and Experience Poor. 5. Exploration. 6. Craft Knowledge. 7. Reflection. 8. Teacher Leadership. 9. Impediments and Opportunities. 10. Teachers and Principals. 11. On Becoming a Principal. 12. Conditions for Learning. 13. Some Questions. 14. Risk. 15. Coming to a Vision. Epilogue. Appendix A: A Letter to Parents. Appendix B: Some Thoughts on "Conditions for Learning". Notes. Index.