Title: Empowering teachers and parents : school restructuring through the eyes of anthropologists /
Authors: Hess, G. Alfred, 1938-
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Teacher participation in administration United States; School management and organization Parent participation United States.; Educational change United States; Educational anthropology United States.
Contents: Introduction: Examining school restructuring efforts / G.Alfred Hess, Jr. -- I: Empowering teachers. Work that is real : why teachers should be empowered / William Ayers ; Rural science and mathematics education : empowerment through self-reflection and expanding curricular alternatives / Mary Jo McGee Brown ; The dangers of assuming a consensus for change : some examples from the coalition of essential schools / Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan ; Empowerment of teachers in Dade County's school-based management pilot / Marjorie K. Hanson, Don R. Morris, and Robert A. Collins ; Conflict in restructuring the principal-teacher relationship in Memphis / Carol Plata Etheridge and Thomas W. Collins ; Rural responses to Kentucky's Education Reform Act / Pamelia Coe and Patricia J. Kannapel -- II: Empowering parents. The case for parent and community involvement / Donald R.Moore ; Who's making what decisions : monitoring authority shifts in Chicago school reform / G. Alfred Hess, Jr. and John Q. Easton ; School reform in East Harlem : alternative schools vs. "schools of choice" / Diane Harrington and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. -- III: Anthropological perspectives. The role of anthropologists in restructuring schools / Thomas G. Carroll ; Critical friends in the fray : an experiment in applying critical ethnography to school restructuring / John M. Watkins ; Through the eyes of anthropologists / G. Alfred Hess, Jr.