Re-Creating Schools
Places Where Everyone Learns and Likes It
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8039-6426-6 (ISBN)
Description
Their book presents a vision of a school in which teachers and students construct their knowledge rather than receive it from others. It gives practical steps to achieve this and addresses the necessary role changes of educators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-6426-6 (9780803964266)
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Douglas J. Simpson, Ph. D., is
Professor and Helen DeVitt Jones Chair in Teacher Education, Texas Tech University. He is the author or co-author of numerous
articles, reviews, chapters and books, including John Dewey and the Art of Teaching, The Pedagodfathers: The Lords of Education, Recreating Schools: Places
Where Everyone Learns and Likes It, The Teacher as Philosopher, and Educational Reform: A Deweyan Perspective. He has held tenured positions at the University of Louisville,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Tennessee State University, and Texas Christian
University and taught in
the fields of ethics and teaching, curriculum and instruction, school
psychology, and educational theory. He spends time each week at Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School
where he interacts with students about ethical, historical, and geographical
interests. He is a former president of the American Educational Studies
Association and the Society of Professors of Education.
Professor and Helen DeVitt Jones Chair in Teacher Education, Texas Tech University. He is the author or co-author of numerous
articles, reviews, chapters and books, including John Dewey and the Art of Teaching, The Pedagodfathers: The Lords of Education, Recreating Schools: Places
Where Everyone Learns and Likes It, The Teacher as Philosopher, and Educational Reform: A Deweyan Perspective. He has held tenured positions at the University of Louisville,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Tennessee State University, and Texas Christian
University and taught in
the fields of ethics and teaching, curriculum and instruction, school
psychology, and educational theory. He spends time each week at Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School
where he interacts with students about ethical, historical, and geographical
interests. He is a former president of the American Educational Studies
Association and the Society of Professors of Education.
Content
Envisioning `What Could Be'
Re-Visioning Schools and Learning
Re-Visioning Teaching and Professional Growth
Getting There from Here
Monitoring, Assessing and Celebrating
Re-Visioning Schools and Learning
Re-Visioning Teaching and Professional Growth
Getting There from Here
Monitoring, Assessing and Celebrating