Reform and resistance in schools and classrooms : an ethnographic view of the Coalition of Essential Schools /

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, pedagog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Muncey, Donna E.
Otros Autores: McQuillan, Patrick J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996.
Temas:
Coalition of Essential Schools.
Coalition of Essential Schools
High schools > United States > Administration.
Education, Secondary > Social aspects > United States.
Ethnology > United States.
Écoles secondaires > États-Unis > Administration.
Enseignement secondaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Ethnologie > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Education, Secondary > Social aspects
Ethnology
High schools > Administration
High school
Schulreform
Unterrichtsreform
Höhere Schule
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Seymour B. Sarason
  • 1. The Coalition of Essential Schools
  • 2. "Students Feel That This is Their Program": Lewis High's Essential School Program
  • 3. "Different People with Different Agendas": Russell High's Essential School
  • 4. "A Struggle That Had to Play Itself Out": Elliston High School
  • 5. "But We're Not Failing Here": The Coalition at Evans Hill High School
  • 6. "I'm Not in This All Alone": The Wade School and Coalition Philosophy
  • 7. A Comparative Look at Schoolwide Change
  • 8. "If Only I Had the Time": A Teacher in the Midst of Change
  • 9. "But We Have Oral History Projects, Time Lines, and Tests. We Don't Even Know Where to Start": Negotiation and Resistance in a Coalition Classroom
  • 10. "From Whose Point of View?": Two Humanities Classes in Coalition Schools
  • 11. "You Can't Always 'Do Change' on Top of Everything Else": A Comparative Look at the Role of the Principal in Coalition Schools.

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