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Tables of Contents for Re-Creating Schools
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
6
About the Authors
xiii
1. Envisioning What Could be
1
27
Rethinking Old Myths
2
4
Why Current Reform, Restructuring, and Partnerships Are Not Enough
6
5
Reform, Restructuring, and Partnership Endeavors as Starting Points
11
6
An Alternative Vision
17
7
A Context of Interconnectedness
24
4
2. Revisioning Schools and Learning
28
28
Schools as Morally Based Learning Communities
28
20
Learning as Experience-Based Intellectual Construction
48
8
3. Revisioning Teaching and Professional Growth
56
35
Teaching as Professional Practice
57
18
Professional Knowledge, Competence, and Values
75
16
4. Getting There From Here
91
45
Pursuing Images
93
2
A Difficult Journey
95
3
Attitude, Attitude, Attitude
98
3
Assessing Current School Conditions and Practices
101
17
The Nature of the Journeys
118
18
5. Monitoring, Assessing, and Celebrating
136
23
A Different Perspective on Assessment
136
7
Assessment Using Other Parallel Standards
143
13
Conclusion
156
3
Bibliography
159
18
Index
177