Understanding How School Change Really Happens: Reform at Brookville High - Couverture rigide

Cohen, Rosetta M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803962541 ISBN 13 : 9780803962545

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Using a combination of participant observation and interviews with teachers, parents and students, Rosetta Marantz Cohen explores a high school's efforts in the United States to implement broad-based curricular change. The book vividly illustrates the impact of change on an often resistant institution. From her observations, Cohen draws up a series of recommendations for those considering embarking on similar site-based reform initiatives.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Achieving school reform is a long, arduous process. If one were to "tell it like it is," the effort is usually wrought with problems that most change agents are not fully prepared for problems such as the drudgery, the exhaustion, the conflicts between outsiders and insiders, the confusion over goals, and the adversarial relationships that develop among teachers and parents. However, preparedness and a realistic awareness of what to expect can mean the difference between a failed attempt and an ongoing process of positive, though often incremental, change. Rosetta Cohen tells a singular story of one high school's struggle to remake itself. This is the story of the Quest Program, a teacher-designed experiment in curricular reform. The participants - teachers, administrators, students, parents, and college collaborators - worked together to create an alternative class of ninth graders with the goal of promoting critical thinking and high self-esteem simultaneously.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803962541
• ISBN 13: 9780803962545
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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