PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT WORK by Gregory A. Smith (Editor) ( 9780415905770 )

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Title:

PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT WORK
CREATING COMMUNITY

By:

Gregory A. Smith (Editor)

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

041590577X

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9780415905770

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 December, 1994

Series:

Critical Social Thought

Pages:

256

Description:

In this text US educators describe systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages, and transform schools into places of intellectual vitality with strong connection to their local social environment.

Synopsis:

Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative elementary and secondary schools across the country recount their attempts to create systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages, involve parents and community leaders in decisions related to the life of their schools and involve students in their communities by encouraging participation in a variety of civic projects. By being rooted in their local social environment, these schools demonstrate the transformative potential of education to return power and authority to those individuals attempting to reconstruct and humanize the institutions within which they must learn and teach.

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Routledge

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