Teaching, curriculum, and community involvement

This publication features Hiatt-Michael's research and practice during thirty-four years as Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University. The chapters represent a range of her major thoughts on teaching, curriculum and family-community involve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Hiatt-Michael, Diana B. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2008.
SeriesFamily, school, community, partnership.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806619023
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-972-9
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 146 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Personal reflections
  • Teaching: Where is the satisfaction?
  • Time allocation in the classroom: Is instruction being shortchanged?
  • Early childhood education: Present status and future directions
  • Teaching from alternative frames of reference
  • Cognition of space depicted in graphic representation
  • Curricular decision-making
  • Post-sputnik educational reform era: To dream the impossible dream
  • No limit to the possibilities: An interview with ralph tyler
  • Schools as learning communities: A vision for organic school reform
  • Families, their childrens' education, and the public school: An historical review
  • Reflections and directions on research related to family-community involvement in schooling
  • Global issues in family-school-community engagement.