Research Catalog

Title

Profound improvement : building capacity for a learning community / Coral Mitchell and Larry Sackney.

Publication

Lisse ; Exton, PA : Swets & Zeitlinger, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitchell, Coral, 1948-
• Sackney, Larry, 1941-

Description

xvi, 156 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Profound Improvement focuses on the life world of school people as it relates to professional learning and growth. It is concerned with human growth and development, human cognition and affect, and human interactions and actions in the context of a school community. It places at the centre of the discourse some of the less controllable aspects of professional development - the undercurrents of professional presuppositions and beliefs as well as the surface waves of professional knowledge and learning. From the perspective, building a learning community is a dynamic process that engages the individual, the group, and the organisation in embedded interdependencies and mutual influences."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Contexts of learning

Uniform Title

Contexts of learning

Subject

• Learning > Philosophy
• Constructivism (Philosophy)
• Lernpsychologie
• Schulorganisation
• Leerkrachten
• Onderwijsvernieuwing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-148) and index.

Contents

A learning community: contextual elements -- Personal capacity: the search for knowledge -- Personal capacity: the construction of knowledge -- Interpersonal capacity: building the learning community climate -- Interpersonal capacity: building the team -- Organizational capacity: opening doors and breaking down walls -- Organizational capacity: sharing leadership and sharing power -- Organizational capacity: making it so -- The learning community: retrospect and prospect.

ISBN

• 9026516347
• 9789026516344

LCCN

00044658

OCLC

• ocm44413574
• 44413574
• SCSB-1201197

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library