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Informationen zum Autor Ronald J. Newell spent 27 years as a high school history teacher and coach, 4 years in teacher preparation programs at the university level, helped begin the Minnesota New Country School, and now works with the Gates-EdVisions Project replicating the project-based model. He is also the author of Passion for Learning (ScarecrowEducation, 2003). Irving H. Buchen is Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of International Programs for IMPAC University, a member of the doctoral business faculty of Capella University, a Senior Principal of Canis Learning Systems, and training editor of The Futurist, the official publication of the World Future Society. Klappentext Here, authors Ronald Newell and Irving Buchen continue the dialogue begun by Roland Barth, Linda Lambert, Carl Glickman and others pertaining to democratic, teacher-led schools. Teachers are capable of managing schools, without designated principals and/or superintendents. A number of practitioners have taken up the gauntlet and have created collaborative cultures in order to fulfill the need for creating teacher-controlled environments. These environments are necessary to carry out the as-of-yet unfulfilled reform of practices that benefit students at the most elemental level of education-the relationship of teacher and learner. In teacher-managed schools, teachers have control of budgets, management, personnel, and all other decision-making. It is not enough for teachers to be willing to democratically control schools. The culture of schooling is not inherently democratic, and a collaborative culture must be cultivated by creating the community, the collective, the consensual, the consultative, and the coaching commitment. Newell and Buchen show how the experience of a group of practitioners has lighted the way for continual development of the elements of the collaborative culture by living them. They also discuss the problems and promises of creating and living this collaborative, democratic culture. Zusammenfassung Newell and Buchen show how the experience of a group of practitioners has lighted the way for continual development of the elements of the collaborative culture by living them and creating a teacher-led school. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. The Future of School Governance Chapter 4 2. The Teacher Culture of the Past and Present Chapter 5 3. The Past Creates the Future: Democratic Schools Chapter 6 4. The Future in the Present: The Visions of EdVisions Chapter 7 5. Educational Collaboratives: The Five Facets of Mastery Chapter 8 6. Obstacles and Opportunities: Feedback from Practitioners Chapter 9 7. Creating the Culture of Collaborative Governance Chapter 10 Appendix A: Practitioner Responses to the Five Aspects of Collaboration Chapter 11 Appendix B: Practitioner Responses to the Four Statements Chapter 12 References Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Authors...
