Product Description: This volume features chapters by several scholars and practitioners, each discussing the invitational education theory and reporting on successful practice in various school settings.

Product Description: This book captures the spirit, richness, and diversity of democratic teacher educators as they put their ideas into practice in creative and persistent ways. Using a diverse group of democratic educational projects from throughout North America, this volume taps into varied ways teacher educators from large state institutions, small rural colleges, urban private universities, new academic programs, special teacher development centers, and public voluntary citizen organizations are working to create the resources and opportunities for teachers to develop the skills and confidence necessary to promote sustained democratic processes...read more

Product Description: Founded on invitational theory, this book offers a fresh approach for todays teachers. The authors cover the teaching skills and techniques necessary to invite the student to participate in the learning process. They demonstrate the ways in which the teachers beliefs and attitudes about people--including trust, respect, optimism, and intentionality--are paramount in enabling the student to become his/her personal best...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: School leaders worldwide are under increased pressure to apply business approaches to their schools. For this to work best schools need to have in place solid defensible educational goals to enhance their educational values which must be maintained and protected...read more

Product Description: INVITING SCHOOL SUCCESS is built around a specific model of teaching and counseling known as "invitational education," which is intellectually grounded in the work of John Dewey, Carl Rogers, and Albert Bandura, among others. Using this model, Purkey and Novak advocate that the process of education is as important as the product, that cooperation and collaboration are absolutely essential to teaching, and that students have untapped possibilities...read more