Public Schools That Work: Creating Community (Critical Social Thought) - Hardcover

Book 34 of 54: Critical Social Thought
 
9780415905770: Public Schools That Work: Creating Community (Critical Social Thought)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041590577X ISBN 13: 9780415905770
Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative elementary and secondary schools across the country recount their attempts to create systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages, involve parents and community leaders in decisions related to the life of their schools and involve students in their communities by encouraging participation in a variety of civic projects. By being rooted in their local social environment, these schools demonstrate the transformative potential of education to return power and authority to those individuals attempting to reconstruct and humanize the institutions within which they must learn and teach.

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About the Author

Gregory A. Smith is Assistant Professor at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Educationand Environment: Learning to Live with Limits and coauthor of Reducing the Risk: Schools as Communities ofSupport.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041590577X
ISBN 13 
9780415905770
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
264
Editor
Smith Gregory A.