Title:
Professionalism and community : perspectives on reforming urban schools
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Publication Information:
London : Sage Pub, 1995
ISBN:
9780803962521
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Summary
Summary
School-based professional community is a concept that portrays teachers as working together towards a set of shared goals of improved professionalism for themselves and increased learning opportunities for students. Attempts to put this into practice in urban schools in the United States have met with varying degrees of success. Using case studies, the contributors to this book examine the reasons for this inconsistency, focusing on the structural, social and human relations conditions of schooling.
Author Notes
Karen Seashore Louis, Sharon D. Kruse: University of Minnesota
Table of Contents
| Part 1 Problems and Concepts |
| Professionalism and CommunityKaren Seashore Louis and Sharon D Kruse and Anthony S Bryk |
| What Is It and Why Is It Important in Urban Schools? |
| An Emerging Framework for Analyzing School-Based Professional CommunitySharon D Kruse and Karen Seashore Louis and Anthony S Bryk |
| Part 2 Cases From Urban Schools |
| Professional Community and Its Yield at Metro AcademyMary Anne Raywid |
| Thomas Paine High SchoolJean A King and Daniel A Weiss |
| Professional Community in an Unlikely Setting |
| Catalyzing Professional Community in a School Reform Left BehindSharon Rollow and Anthony S Bryk |
| Changing the Tire on a Moving BusM Peg Lonnquist and Jean A King |
| Barriers to Professional Community at Whitehead School |
| Dewey Middle SchoolDaniel A Weiss and Karen Seashore Louis and Jeremy Hopkins |
| Getting Past the First Stages of Restructuring |
| Part 3 Reflections on Professional Community in Urban Schools |
| Developing Professional Community in New and Restructuring Urban SchoolsSharon D Kruse and Karen Seashore Louis |
| Getting ThereKaren Seashore Louis and Sharon D Kruse |
| Promoting Professional Community in Urban Schools |
