The power to transform
Subtitle: leadership that brings learning and schooling to life
By: Stephanie Pace Marshall.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Jossey-Bass
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780787975012
Subjects: School improvement programs.; Learning.; Education.
Description: "In this new book, Stephanie Pace Marshall argues that by focusing on reforming the contents of schooling and not transforming the context and conditions of learning, we have created false proxies for learning and eroded the potentially vibrant intellectual life of our schools. Finishing a course and a textbook has come to mean achievement. Listening to a lecture has come to mean understanding. Getting a high score on a standardized test has come to mean proficiency. Credentialing has come to mean competence."

"To educate our children wisely requires that we create generative learning communities, by design. Such learning communities have their roots in meaning, not memory; engagement, not transmission; inquiry, not compliance; exploration, not acquisition; personalization, not uniformity; interdependence, not individualism; collaboration, not competition; and trust, not fear."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface: the call for a radical new story of learning and schooling; title: Gratitudes; title: About the author; title: Prologue: songlines; title: The journey toward wholeness; title: Firestorm or gift?; title: The power of story; title: What living systems teach us; title: Nurturing integral habits of mind; title: A new learning landscape; title: Designing the new learning landscape; title: Integrity; title: Naming and owning our integral learning identity; title: Vibrancy; title: Generating and using abundant learning information; title: Interdependence; title: Inviting and sustaining collaborative learning relationships; title: Coherence; title: Stimulating creative and self-organizing learning processes; title: Sustainability; title: Weaving and mapping networked learning patterns; title: Stability; title: A generative community for integral learning: aspen grove revisited; title: A call for leaders; title: The right moment; title: Elder-leadership; title: Creating the radical new story of learning and schooling.