Schools as Collaborative Cultures
Published on 1. March 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-1-85000-673-2 (ISBN)
Description
Teacher collaboration is a key activity in the developing school. The contributions offered here provide a set of improvisations on the same theme; that each school needs to establish a collaborative culture as a pre - condition for its own development. Associated themes touched upon here include bureaucratic schooling, democratic leadership, teacher professionalism and teacher involvement in decision - making and "colleagueship". Common themes running through the collection include - the creation of community in schools, the struggle to understand and develop the use of such ideas as commitment, colleagueship and leadership, and the desire to rethink fundamentally how schools can change.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
music transparencies
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-673-2 (9781850006732)
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Content
Part 1 Understanding what we value: recanting bureaucracy - a democratic structure for leadership in schools, David L Clark,Judith M Meloy; teacher professionalism, Linda Darling-Hammond; what are schools of education for? Seymour Sarason. Part 2 Examining critical issues of fundamental change: a fundamental puzzle of school reform, Larry Cuban; education reform strategies - will they increase teacher commitment? Susan J Rosenholtz; teaching incentives - contraint and variety, Gary Sykes; healing our schools - restoring the heart, Terry Deal. Part 3 Changing the roles, relationships and the culture of schools: the social realities of teaching, Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller; teachers as colleagues, Judith Warren Little; leadership for curriculum improvement - the school administrator's role, Gary A Griffin; staff development and school change, Milbrey W McLaughlin and David D Marsh; schools for the 21st century - the conditions for invention, Phillip C Schlechty.