Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools - Couverture souple

Muncey, Donna E.; McQuillan, Patrick J.

 
9780300199819: Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300199813 ISBN 13 : 9780300199819
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

What constitutes better schooling for today's youth? In 1984 educational theorist Theodore R. Sizer formulated nine Common Principles to answer this question and launched The Coalition of Essential Schools, an organization of schools attempting to change their own structure, curriculum, pedagogy, and power relations according to Sizer's Principles. This important book, the first comprehensive look at Coalition schools, charts the course of reform at eight charter member schools. The Coalition now counts over 900 private, parochial, public, urban, suburban, and rural secondary schools among its affiliates nationwide.

Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan, experts in anthropology as well as education, conducted a five-year ethnographic study to understand what happened in Coalition schools. The authors looked at curricular and pedagogical developments; how changes affected individual students, teachers, administrators, and other school personnel; and how American cultural beliefs influenced efforts to change. The schools' reform experiences differed: some efforts were sustained when others stalled, change divided some faculties while others found a sense of shared purpose, and the principals of some schools facilitated change while others clearly inhibited it. This compelling book, written for all who are concerned with education in America, offers a wealth of insights into the complexities of change efforts in individual schools and in classrooms.

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À propos de l?auteur

Donna E. Muncey is a research faculty member at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Patrick J. McQuillan is assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300199813
ISBN 13 
9780300199819
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
330
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780300061086: Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300061080 ISBN 13 :  9780300061086
Editeur : Yale University Press, 1996
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