Classroom Management
Perspectives on the Social Curriculum
Published on 28. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
315 pages
978-0-13-460908-9 (ISBN)
Description
A core text for classroom management courses, or a supplemental tool for methods courses. This book offers a student-centered approach (proactive) to classroom management with an emphasis on the impact of culture and the social curriculum in the classroom.
This text provides ongoing activities to equip readers with the ability to construct and refine their existing personal theories, philosophies, and metaphors for managing culturally diverse classrooms. The authors' unique approach of combining diversity issues with management issues challenges readers to conduct action research on a topic that brings the two themes together.
This text provides ongoing activities to equip readers with the ability to construct and refine their existing personal theories, philosophies, and metaphors for managing culturally diverse classrooms. The authors' unique approach of combining diversity issues with management issues challenges readers to conduct action research on a topic that brings the two themes together.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 184 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-460908-9 (9780134609089)
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Content
I. THINKING MORE DEEPLY ABOUT SCHOOL LIFE.
1. Toward Student-Centered Management.
2. Managing Interpersonal Relationships in Your Classroom: Historical and Metaphorical Perspectives.
3. How Cultural and Personal Labels Influence Teachers and Students.
4. Dealing With Everyday Classroom Life: How to Develop Routines, Promote Responsibility, and Respond to Problems.
II. UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN TODAY'S CLASSROOMS.
5. Conflict and Cooperation in the Social Curriculum.
6. Promoting Cooperation and Dealing with Conflict: Classroom Strategies.
7. Contemporary Issues Related to Student Behavior and Discipline.
III DEVELOPING CULTURAL AND LOCAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOCIAL CURRICULA.
8. Coping with Change at John Tynes Elementary School.
9. The Social Curriculum of Brown-Barge Middle School: A Case Report of Guidance and Mediation.
10. Diversity and Management: The Case of Estacado High School.
IV. EXPLORING CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE.
11. Inquiring into Classroom and School Life: An Action Research Approach.
12. Synthesizing Your Personal Theories for Management in Contemporary Classrooms.
1. Toward Student-Centered Management.
2. Managing Interpersonal Relationships in Your Classroom: Historical and Metaphorical Perspectives.
3. How Cultural and Personal Labels Influence Teachers and Students.
4. Dealing With Everyday Classroom Life: How to Develop Routines, Promote Responsibility, and Respond to Problems.
II. UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN TODAY'S CLASSROOMS.
5. Conflict and Cooperation in the Social Curriculum.
6. Promoting Cooperation and Dealing with Conflict: Classroom Strategies.
7. Contemporary Issues Related to Student Behavior and Discipline.
III DEVELOPING CULTURAL AND LOCAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOCIAL CURRICULA.
8. Coping with Change at John Tynes Elementary School.
9. The Social Curriculum of Brown-Barge Middle School: A Case Report of Guidance and Mediation.
10. Diversity and Management: The Case of Estacado High School.
IV. EXPLORING CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE.
11. Inquiring into Classroom and School Life: An Action Research Approach.
12. Synthesizing Your Personal Theories for Management in Contemporary Classrooms.