Learning By Heart
Published on 5. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-0-7879-7223-3 (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
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-7223-3 (9780787972233)
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THE AUTHOR
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.
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 xi
Deborah Meier
Acknowledgments xv
The Author xvii
Introduction xix
1. Thinking Otherwise 1
2. Culture in Question 7
3. A Community of Learners 21
4. Information Rich and Experience Poor 31
5. Exploration 41
6. Craft Knowledge 53
7. Reflection 65
8. Teacher Leadership 75
9. Impediments and Opportunities 87
10. Teachers and Principals 105
11. On Becoming a Principal 119
12. Conditions for Learning 143
13. Some Questions 167
14. Risk 183
15. Coming to a Vision 193
Epilogue 209
Appendix A: A Letter to Parents 215
Appendix B: Some Thoughts on "Conditions for Learning" 221
Notes 233
Index 239
Deborah Meier
Acknowledgments xv
The Author xvii
Introduction xix
1. Thinking Otherwise 1
2. Culture in Question 7
3. A Community of Learners 21
4. Information Rich and Experience Poor 31
5. Exploration 41
6. Craft Knowledge 53
7. Reflection 65
8. Teacher Leadership 75
9. Impediments and Opportunities 87
10. Teachers and Principals 105
11. On Becoming a Principal 119
12. Conditions for Learning 143
13. Some Questions 167
14. Risk 183
15. Coming to a Vision 193
Epilogue 209
Appendix A: A Letter to Parents 215
Appendix B: Some Thoughts on "Conditions for Learning" 221
Notes 233
Index 239