Living faithfully : the transformation of Washington School

Living Faithfully is for anyone interested in education and education policy, whether parent, community member, teacher, student of leadership or policy maker. It looks at school leadership and reform in an alternative way, following the story of change at Washington School, a troubled grades 5-6 ce...

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Main Author Schoonmaker, Frances, 1941- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615148
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-709-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xxx, 185 pages)

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index. 
505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- Preface. Introduction -- Chapter 1. It's as modern as tomorrow -- Chapter 2. Contradictions of leadership -- Chapter 2. Finding a trustworthy space -- Chapter 3. A covenant to live faithfully -- Chapter 4. Support from the central office -- Chapter 5. Professional development as a deliberative process -- Chapter 6. Swimming against the current -- Chapter 7. Education as sacred task. Notes -- References -- About the author. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a Living Faithfully is for anyone interested in education and education policy, whether parent, community member, teacher, student of leadership or policy maker. It looks at school leadership and reform in an alternative way, following the story of change at Washington School, a troubled grades 5-6 center in a small town in Western Oklahoma. Not only does the book address a neglected population, the more than 1/3 of the nation's children who go to school in small towns and rural areas, it uses the occasion to invert thinking about school reform. It argues that in today's policy climate where guaranteed, standard outcomes are touted as goals of education, leadership schemes, even those designed to challenge topdown, bureaucratic models, are quickly co-opted to produce the appearance of learning. Prevailing leadership theories beg the question of who is being transformed and to what end, failing to challenge assumptions and dominant ideas of contemporary education and leadership thinking.Drawing on Philip Phenix's idea of the faithful life, the book proposes an alternative way forward. Phenix talks about connections between school and life. According to Phenix, the faithful life is concerned with the normative question of what is good, true, right, just, beautiful, and holy. This is not the vocabulary of current education policy. But it describes the kind of community created at Washington School despite its history of failure. And it describes what most families want for their children whether they live in the city or country, America or elsewhere: an education that matters. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
610 2 0 |a Washington School (Clinton, Okla.)  |x History. 
650 0 |a Rural schools  |z Oklahoma  |z Clinton  |x History. 
650 0 |a Children with social disabilities  |x Education  |z Oklahoma  |z Clinton. 
651 0 |a Clinton (Okla.)  |x Social conditions. 
650 7 |a Education  |x Special Education  |x Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Educational administration and organization.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a Teaching of students with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.  |2 thema 
650 7 |a Relating to people with visible or hidden disabilities, impairments or conditions.  |2 thema 
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776 0 8 |i PDF version:  |z 9781617357091 
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