Grow Your Own Teachers - Grassroots Change for Teacher Education

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth A. Skinner is assistant professor in the Bilingual Education Program, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Illinois State University. Maria Teresa Garretón is professor and chair of the Department of Teacher Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Brian D. Schultz is associate professor in the Department of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Klappentext The Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher initiative involves collaboration between community-based organizations and colleges of education in preparing community members to teach for change in their local schools. Incorporating stories and the perspectives of foremost teacher educators, students, and community leaders, this book offers an alternative framework for teacher education that will provide urban students with the education they deserve. It will also provide adult community members with an example of higher education that can lead to a rewarding professional career. --from publisher description Zusammenfassung This book describes the evolution of a local school reform movement in Chicago that now serves as a model for change in schools and teacher preparation programs across the country.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Teresa Garreton, Brian D Schultz, Brian D. Schultz, Elizabeth A Skinner, Elizabeth A. Skinner, Elizabeth A. (EDT)/ Garreton Skinner
• Assisted by: William Ayers (Editor), Maria Teresa Garretn (Editor), Maria Teresa Garreton (Editor), Therese Quinn (Editor), Brian D. Schultz (Editor), Elizabeth A. Skinner (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2011
• EAN: 9780807751930
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5193-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Teaching for Social Justice (P; Teaching for Social Justice Series; Teaching for Social Justice; Teaching for Social Justice (P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system