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

ISBN 10: 041590577X / ISBN 13: 9780415905770

Published by Routledge, 1993

About this Item

In this text US educators describe systems which will educate diverse populations in their customs and heritages, and transform schools into places of intellectual vitality with strong connection to their local social environment. Editor(s): Smith, Gregory A. Series: Critical Social Thought. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567. . 1993. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Schools That Work: Creating Community (Critical Social Thought)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041590577X
• ISBN 13: 9780415905770
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

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.

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.