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Classrooms as Learning Communities: What's In It For Schools?
Classrooms as Learning Communities What's In It For Schools
Author: Chris Watkins
In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge. This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms through:
  • an integration of what's best in learning and what's best in the social life of cla...  more »
  • a vision of the role of the teacher that is more creative and more related to the commitments of teachers
  • a more connected view of schools in contrast to the mechanistic view that currently dominates
  • an answer to the short-term performance pressures of politicians - better performance.
The practice and vision of classrooms that operate as learning communities is presented clearly and encourages teachers to take steps towards building a more effective classroom with the aspects of learning communities they choose.
ISBN-13: 9780415327794
ISBN-10: 0415327792
Publication Date: 7/19/2005
Pages: 248
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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