Who Will Save Our Schools?

Teachers as Constructivist Leaders
Linda Lambert - California State University, East Bay, USA
Michelle Collay - California State University, East Bay, USA
Anna Ershler Richert - Mills College
Who Will Save Our Schools?
November 1996 | 224 pages | Corwin
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A compelling new look at the role that teachers must play in the future of schooling. Explains: * Why teachers must take the lead in creating a new context for teaching and learning * How "constructivist leaders" make meaning of learning * What an ecological perspective will do to initiate and sustain learning communities in schools * How the parallel roles of leadership with adults and leadership with children emerge in the role of a teacher leader * The commitments, knowledge, and skills that are essential for teachers as leaders For everyone with a stake in the future of our educational system.

Contents

Examining the Context and Promise of Schooling

Examining the Context and Promise of Schooling

The Teacher as Constructivist Leader

The Teacher as Constructivist Leader

Changing the System

  • A Prerequisite to Saving Our Schools

Constructing Understandings of Learning Communities

  • Essential Structures and Processes for Teacher Leadership and Systemic Change

Teaching as Leading

Teaching as Leading

Who Sets the Learning Agenda

  • Issues of Power, Authority, and Control

Preparing the Constructivist Teacher Leader

Preparing the Constructivist Teacher Leader

The Future of Teaching, Leading, and Reform

The Future of Teaching, Leading, and Reform

Description

A compelling new look at the role that teachers must play in the future of schooling. Explains: * Why teachers must take the lead in creating a new context for teaching and learning * How "constructivist leaders" make meaning of learning * What an ecological perspective will do to initiate and sustain learning communities in schools * How the parallel roles of leadership with adults and leadership with children emerge in the role of a teacher leader * The commitments, knowledge, and skills that are essential for teachers as leaders For everyone with a stake in the future of our educational system.

Contents

Examining the Context and Promise of Schooling

Examining the Context and Promise of Schooling

The Teacher as Constructivist Leader

The Teacher as Constructivist Leader

Changing the System

  • A Prerequisite to Saving Our Schools

Constructing Understandings of Learning Communities

  • Essential Structures and Processes for Teacher Leadership and Systemic Change

Teaching as Leading

Teaching as Leading

Who Sets the Learning Agenda

  • Issues of Power, Authority, and Control

Preparing the Constructivist Teacher Leader

Preparing the Constructivist Teacher Leader

The Future of Teaching, Leading, and Reform

The Future of Teaching, Leading, and Reform

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Who Will Save Our Schools?

Teachers as Constructivist Leaders


November 1996 | 224 pages | Corwin

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Hardcover 27/02/2023 9780803964624 $73.95
Paperback 28/04/2023 9780803964631 $39.95

A compelling new look at the role that teachers must play in the future of schooling. Explains: * Why teachers must take the lead in creating a new context for teaching and learning * How "constructivist leaders" make meaning of learning * What an ecological perspective will do to initiate and sustain learning communities in schools * How the parallel roles of leadership with adults and leadership with children emerge in the role of a teacher leader * The commitments, knowledge, and skills that are essential for teachers as leaders For everyone with a stake in the future of our educational system.


Table Of Contents:

  • Examining the Context and Promise of Schooling
  • The Teacher as Constructivist Leader
  • Changing the System
  • A Prerequisite to Saving Our Schools
  • Constructing Understandings of Learning Communities
  • Essential Structures and Processes for Teacher Leadership and Systemic Change
  • Teaching as Leading
  • Who Sets the Learning Agenda
  • Issues of Power, Authority, and Control
  • Preparing the Constructivist Teacher Leader
  • The Future of Teaching, Leading, and Reform

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