Jenny's Story - Taking the Long View of the Child, Prospect's Philosophy in Action

Informationen zum Autor Patricia F. Carini is a co-founder of Prospect School and the Prospect Archives and Center for Education and Research. She is the author of Starting Strong: A Different Look at Children, Schools, and Standards. Margaret Himley served on the Prospect Board of Trustees and is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. Himley and Carini are co-editors of From Another Angle: Children's Strengths and School Standards. Klappentext By carefully documenting how space was made for Jenny - a child who didn't fit the school mold - this book offers a renewed sense of human possibility and an attainable vision of what schools can be. It demonstrates that it is only by attending to each and every child that schooling can begin to achieve its most noble aim: equality. Zusammenfassung By carefully documenting how space was made for Jenny - a child who didn't fit the school mold - this book offers a renewed sense of human possibility and an attainable vision of what schools can be. It demonstrates that it is only by attending to each and every child that schooling can begin to achieve its most noble aim: equality.

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• Authors: Patricia F Carini, Patricia F. Carini, Patricia F./ Himley Carini, Carol Christine, Cecilia Espinosa, Julia Fournier, Margaret Himley
• Assisted by: Marilyn Cochran-Smith (Editor), Susan L Lytle (Editor), Susan L. Lytle (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2009
• EAN: 9780807750513
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-5051-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Practitioner Inquiry (Paperbac; Practitioner Inquiry Series; Practitioner Inquiry (Paperbac; Practitioner Inquiry; Practitioner Inquiry Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system