All school reformers are trying for better schooling; but all are not marching to the same drum. Four goals-- Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion and Harmony-- are emphasized by different groups. Are the four goals competing ideas of the good, so that national political debates must result in prioritizing, in winners and losers? Tharp, Estrada, Dalton,
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This book aims to convey a vision of the ideal classroom for today's students and academic standards. It proposes that schools made of the classrooms described here can achieve four goals—excellence, fairness, inclusion and harmony—simultaneously and maximally.
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Introduction and Overview -- Transformed Classrooms: Description, Principles, and Criteria -- Activity in Theory and Classroom -- Patterns of Instructional Activity and Relationships -- Culture and Instructional Activity -- Designing the Organization of Instructional Activity -- Classrooms of Phase 5: Evidence, Vision, and Future
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Product details

ISBN
9780367318185
Published
2019-09-13
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
453 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
292

Biographical note

Roland G. Tharp is chair of the Board of Studies in Education and professor of education and psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Tharp is the recipient of the prestigious 1993 Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context (1988). Peggy Estrada. Stephanie Dalton. Lois Yamauchi.