The gated society
Subtitle: exploring information age realities for schools
By: Everette Surgenor.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education; Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781578869312; 9781578869329
Subjects: Public schools -- United States; Public schools -- Canada; Educational change -- United States; Educational change -- Canada; School improvement programs -- United States; School improvement programs -- Canada
Table of contents: title: Learning in an age of new realities; title: The fat lady has sung; title: That was then, this might be now; title: Five perspectives on education; title: We are what we were; title: Why change? why now?; title: The lesson to be learned; title: The industrial school system vs. the information age learning system; title: Planning to plan:  how to create systemic change consistent with information age thinking; title: Prior learning:  assumptions, perceptions and presumptions (generalization one); title: Defining the philosophical thrust and structure of the learning organization (generalization two); title: Understanding what needs to be changed and why (generalization two); title: Creating a site-system leadership model (generalization two); title: A new context for collaboration, leadership teams, learning and financial management (generalization two); title: Community (generalization two); title: Technology (generalization two); title: Values/ethics: sustaining the culture of change (generalization two); title: Assessment/evaluation (generalization two); title: A paradigm shift in planning: implementing the knowledge-based planning model (generalization three); title: Creating a new ethos; title: Imagine; title: Enabling a future.