Profound improvement : building learning-community capacity on living-system principles / oral Mitchell and Larry Sackney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Coral, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Sackney, Larry, 1941-

Series:

Contexts of learning.

Contexts of learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning--Philosophy.

Learning.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book discusses the idea of the learning community as a vehicle for professional learning and school development.As the authors show, the learning community develops in response to building capacity in three domains: personal, interpersonal and organizational. In the personal domain, educators deconstruct and reconstruct their professional narratives to enhance student learning and professional practice. In the interpersonal domain, educators generate norms and values that foster experimentation and critical analysis of educational practice and that promote collective and individu

Contents:

PROFOUND IMPROVEMENT BUILDING LEARNING-COMMUNITY CAPACITY ON LIVING-SYSTEM PRINCIPLES; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A learning community: some frames of reference; 2 Personal capacity: the search for knowledge; 3 Personal capacity: the construction of knowledge; 4 Interpersonal capacity: building the learning community climate; 5 Interpersonal capacity: building the team; 6 Organizational capacity: opening doors and breaking down walls; 7 Organizational capacity: leadership for learning

8 Organizational capacity: making it so9 The learning community: retrospect and prospect; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-79121-3

1-283-10357-5

9786613103574

1-136-79122-1

0-203-82602-7

9780203826027

OCLC:

719606262