Description |
xii, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
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SUNY series, frontiers in education |
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SUNY series, frontiers in education.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index. |
Contents |
pt. I. Troubled Times: Violence, Values, and Youth Culture. Deborah Prothrow-Stith: Schools as Safe Havens. Kevin Ryan: The Quest for Truth and Justice. Thomas Lickona: The Promulgation of Virtue. Alan L. Lockwood: The Current Incarnation of Character. B. Bradford Brown: Who Adolescents Really Are -- pt. II. Dealing with Difference: Race, Culture, and Ability. Christine E. Sleeter: Understanding and Embracing Multicultural Education. Gloria Ladson-Billings: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Action. Lily Wong Fillmore: Our Common Culture, Our Ambivalence. Anne Fairbrother: A Voyage of Discovery. Joseph S. Renzulli: Providing Enrichment for All Students. Mara Sapon-Shevin: What's Good for the Gifted Is Good for All. Howard Gardner: Educating for Understanding. Thomas R. Hoerr: One School's Application of Multiple Intelligences Theory -- pt. III. "You Can't Lead Where You Won't Go": Professionalism, Unions, and Leadership. Roland S. Barth: Professionalism and School Leaders. |
Summary |
Award-winning writer Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood interviews nationally known leaders in a new genre of conversations about key issues in education that inform the contemporary debate and the general reader. Topics range from the currnet debate over character education to multicultural education, and from multiple intelligences to national standards. |
Subject |
Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Educational leadership -- United States.
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Educational change -- United States.
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School management and organization -- United States.
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Education -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00902773
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Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
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Educational leadership. (OCoLC)fst00903527
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School management and organization. (OCoLC)fst01107575
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Bildungspolitik (DE-588)4006667-8
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Bildungsverwaltung (DE-588)4145493-5
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United States (DE-588)4078704-7
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United States.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh. Conversations with Educational Leaders : Contemporary Viewpoints on Education in America. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997 9780791432884 |
ISBN |
0791432874 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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9780791432877 (hc ; alk. paper) |
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0791432882 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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9780791432884 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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0585062153 |
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9780585062150 |
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