The power to transform : leadership that brings learning and schooling to life / Stephanie Pace Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Stephanie Pace, 1945-

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs.

Learning.

Education.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2006]

Summary:

In this important new book, Stephanie Pace Marshall argues that by focusing on reforming the contents of schooling and not transforming the context and conditions of learning, we have created false proxies for learning and eroded the potentially vibrant intellectual life of our schools. Finishing a course and a textbook has come to mean achievement. Listening to a lecture has come to mean understanding. Getting a high score on a standardized test has come to mean proficiency. Credentialing has come to mean competence. To educate our children wisely requires that we create generative learning communities, by design. Such learning communities have their roots in meaning, not memory; engagement, not transmission; inquiry, not compliance; exploration, not acquisition; personalization, not uniformity; interdependence, not individualism; collaboration, not competition; and trust, not fear.

Contents:

Preface: the call for a radical new story of learning and schooling

Gratitudes

About the author

Prologue: songlines

The journey toward wholeness

Firestorm or gift? : The power of story

What living systems teach us

Nurturing integral habits of mind

A new learning landscape : Aspen Grove by design

Integrity : Naming and owning our integral learning identity

Vibrancy : Generating and using abundant learning information

Interdependence : Inviting and sustaining collaborative learning relationships

Coherence : Stimulating creative and self-organizing learning processes

Sustainability : Weaving and mapping networked learning patterns

Stability : Creating flexible, temporary, and adaptive learning structures

A generative community for integral learning: Aspen Grove revisited

The right moment : Answering the call

Elder-leadership : Changing the current story

Creating the radical new story of learning and schooling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

078797501X

OCLC:

62421121

Publisher Number:

9780787975012