A Place Called School Twentieth Anniversary Edition

by Goodlad, John

• ISBN13: 9780071435901
• ISBN10: 0071435905
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-12
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

First published 20 years ago,A Place Called Schoolis the revolutionary account of the largest on-scene study of U.S. schools ever conducted. Carried on over four years, trained investigators entered more than 1,000 classrooms nationwide to talk to teachers, students, administrators, parents, and other community members. The result is this report. Written by one of the nation's most astute and experienced educators, Goodlad's message of optimism and his agenda for improvement have only grown in importance since the book's original publication.

Author Biography

John I. Goodlad is president of the Institute for Educational Inquiry and a founder of the Center for Educational Renewal at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xxiii
Can We Have Effective Schools?	p. 1
We Want It All	p. 33
Beyond Academics	p. 61
Inside Classrooms	p. 93
Access to Knowledge	p. 130
Teachers and the Circumstances of Teaching	p. 167
What Schools and Classrooms Teach	p. 197
The Same But Different	p. 246
Improving the Schools We Have	p. 271
Beyond the Schools We Have	p. 321
Afterword	p. 363
Notes	p. 383
Index	p. 399
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