Professionalism and Community
Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools
Karen Seashore Louis
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Sharon Kruse
- Washington State University Vancouver
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Description
School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.
Contents
PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS
- Professionalism and Community
- What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools?
- An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional Community
PART TWO: CASES FROM URBAN SCHOOLS
- Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro Academy
- Thomas Paine High School
- Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting
- Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left Behind
- Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus
- Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School
- Dewey Middle School
- Getting Past the First Stages of Restructuring
PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY IN URBAN SCHOOLS
- Developing Professional Community in New and Restructuring Urban Schools
- Getting There
- Promoting Professional Community in Urban Schools
Description
School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.
Contents
PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS
- Professionalism and Community
- What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools?
- An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional Community
PART TWO: CASES FROM URBAN SCHOOLS
- Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro Academy
- Thomas Paine High School
- Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting
- Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left Behind
- Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus
- Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School
- Dewey Middle School
- Getting Past the First Stages of Restructuring
PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY IN URBAN SCHOOLS
- Developing Professional Community in New and Restructuring Urban Schools
- Getting There
- Promoting Professional Community in Urban Schools
Professionalism and Community
Perspectives on Reforming Urban Schools
March 1995 | 272 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780803962538 | $40.95 |
School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.
Table Of Contents:
- PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS
- Professionalism and Community
- What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools?
- An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional Community
- PART TWO: CASES FROM URBAN SCHOOLS
- Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro Academy
- Thomas Paine High School
- Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting
- Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left Behind
- Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus
- Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School
- Dewey Middle School
- Getting Past the First Stages of Restructuring
- PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY IN URBAN SCHOOLS
- Developing Professional Community in New and Restructuring Urban Schools
- Getting There
- Promoting Professional Community in Urban Schools