Empowering Teachers and Parents
Subtitle: School Restructuring Through the Eyes of Anthropologists
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: July 30, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780897892759
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Schools; Teacher participation in administration; Parent participation; Educational Administration; Parents And Education; Education / Teaching; Teacher participation in admin; Education; School management and organization; Administration - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Curricula; Education / General; United States; General; Educational change; School management and organiza
First sentence: Here are snapshots of five different teachers in action: Mr. Wilson, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years, tells his fifth-graders on the first day of school that he has only three simple rules: "First, this is a learning community, and everyone needs to be safe here to work and to learn; no one is allowed to hurt anyone else, to hurt anyone's feelings, or to prevent anyone from doing the important work of our class."