Restructuring Schools: Capturing and Assessing the Phenomena - Softcover

Murphy, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807731110 ISBN 13: 9780807731116

Publisher: Teachers College Pr, 1991

Synopsis

In the early 1980s, a concerted effort to reform American public education began. The impetus for these attempts was primarily economic. It did not take reformers long to make the connection between this economic impotence and the education system, nor was the potential for schooling to restore the economic pre-eminence of the United States ignored. This text captures what has been learned to date about restructuring schools, reports on a well-known study of restructuring conducted in 12 schools, and looks at the types of changes which are needed to develop alternatives to schools as they are currently organized. The book also reviews the work of thoughtful analysts from organizational theory, political science, critical theory, teaching, and learning and history. This text is suitable for educational managers and administrators, teachers, and students of education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0807731110
• ISBN 13: 9780807731116
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 131