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Classrooms as Learning Communities: What's In It For Schools?

Classrooms as Learning Communities: What's In It For Schools?

Watkins, Chris

Paperback

Series: What's in It for Schools?

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0415327806
ISBN13: 9780415327800
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 26 2005
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.78
Language: English

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 classrooms
  • 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.

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