The Large Work of Small Schools: Why Social Studies Teachers and Educators Should Care

Autor/inn/en	Patterson, Nancy; Fischer, John; Francis, Anthony; Smith, Carey
Titel	The Large Work of Small Schools: Why Social Studies Teachers and Educators Should Care
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Social Education, 36 (2008) 1, S.110-132 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-3104
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Social Justice; Urban Schools; School Restructuring; Democracy; Social Studies; Small Schools; Teacher Attitudes; Secondary School Teachers; College Faculty; Democratic Values; Ethnography; College School Cooperation; Educational Change; Teacher Collaboration; Faculty Development; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Demokratie; Gemeinschaftskunde; Lehrerverhalten; Fakultät; Ethnografie; Bildungsreform; Lehrerkooperation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	As we engage our students in social studies topics--whether at the college level or the secondary level--we are charged with promoting habits of mind and thought that produce our country's citizens. If we are doing our jobs, we are insistent about finding ways to connect the democracy in our classrooms with the democracy in our culture, and thus impact the effectiveness of both. In the following auto-ethnographic case study, we map five years of one such effort to make connections through a university/urban school reform project. Two social studies teachers and two social studies professors describe and explore the democratizing elements of this effort and their involvement with it. We have found that changes in structure, curricula, and relationships have been dramatic, and that our own work lives have changed as a result. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10