Organizing Schools for Productive Learning

by Sharan, Shlomo; Tan, Ivy Geok-chin

• ISBN13: 9781402083945
• ISBN10: 1402083947
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book offers an alternative approach to secondary school organization. In line with the definition formulated by John Dewey's philosophy of education, the new approach aims to promote productive learning. The book shows the way to extricate schools from their past in order to respond more successfully to the requirements of the information age in which we are living today.The chapters treat the primary components of teachers' work in schools in light of systems' theory as opposed to the organization of instruction prevalent in today's schools that is designed in light of bureaucratic theory. The book demonstrates how the current principles of organization impede the change and improvement of instruction and by necessity create boredom and the routinization of teachers' and students' activity in schools.

Table of Contents

Two models of school structure	p. 9
The school as a community; the school in the community	p. 27
Student engagement in learning	p. 41
Class size and school size	p. 47
The integrated curriculum	p. 57
Duration of class sessions and the problem of teaching method	p. 67
Student assessment	p. 77
A systems approach to organization and instruction in schools	p. 85
References	p. 91
Author index	p. 97
Subject index	p. 101
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