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Summary
Summary
School-Based Enterprise presents a comprehensive and timely discussion of an educational strategy that has many of the advantages of apprenticeship while avoiding the difficulties of recruiting thousands of employers.
?Thomas Bailey, director, Institute on Education and the Economy, Teachers College, Columbia University
Author Notes
DAVID STERN is professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley. JAMES STONE is associate professor of vocational education at the University of Minnesota. CHARLES HOPKINS is professor of business and marketing education in the College of Education at the University of Minnesota. MARTIN MCMILLION is associate professor of agricultural education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. ROBERT CRAIN is a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he heads the programs in Sociology and Education as well as Politics and Education.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
The authors of this book are strong advocates for school-based enterprise (SBE), which they define as educational programs that involve students in producing goods or services. Since little is currently known about SBE programs, this book makes an important contribution by providing detailed descriptions of 16 varied, successful examples of SBE programs in schools throughout the US. There is a wealth of practical information that can serve as a guide for establishing and running SBE programs. Focusing mainly on programs in secondary schools (two examples involve technical colleges), a case is built that SBE offers a better alternative for meaningful learning than conventional education for both college-bound and vocational students. The programs discussed provide more convincing evidence of the value of SBE for vocational and "at risk" students than for academic students, although there are a few outstanding examples of how some schools have cleverly interwoven specific academic subject matter into SBE programs. Recommended primarily for high school teachers, administrators, and school board members. N. E. Sacks; SUNY at Stony Brook
Table of Contents
| Part 1 School-Based Enterprise and American High Schools |
| 1 The Idea of Learning by Producing |
| 2 Enterprise in Action: Examples from Sixteen Schools |
| Part 2 The Benefits of School-Based Enterprise |
| 3 Teaching and Learning in a Practical Context |
| 4 Economic Contributions |
| 5 Social Benefits |
| Part 3 Creating a School-Based Enterprise |
| 6 Getting Started |
| 7 Running an Enterprise for Learning |
| Part 4 The Future of School-Based Enterprise |
| 8 A Tale of Two Schools |
| 9 A Strategy for Expansion |
