Naturally Small - Teaching and Learning in the Last One-Teacher Schools (Hardcover, New)

This book documents and compares the social organization and academic arrangement of instruction in two remaining modern, public one-teacher schools in rural Nebraska. Neither school is an educational intervention and both stand far removed from reform consciousness, in both the minds of reformers and in those of the people who inhabit them. Each school's teacher does what comes naturally to her or him and the two teacher engage in remarkable distinct practices. One creates an especially efficient form of traditional, conservative teaching that echoes strongly the old country school recitation. The other sees his work as encouraging his students to think and has created a conversation-based pedagogy to achieve this. For both teachers the school size and rural circumstance play into what they believe they can and cannot do and profoundly shape their teaching practices. teach? The research reported here is concerned with how teachers and students organize themselves and do school that is small is scale. If school size is emerging as some important variable in student achievement and school improvement, and smallness is some key to that variable, then it stands to reason that one-teacher schools still have something to tell us. While the primary audience for this book is teachers, teacher educators and education policymakers, others, such as parents, might pick up this book and see some images of schooling that are both familiar and strange to them. The book offers portraits of instruction that can offer readers something to think with as we consider what it takes to improve school life for our own and other people's children.

General

Imprint:	Information Age Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	September 2000
Authors:	Stephen A. Swidler
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59311-123-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59311-123-1
Barcode:	9781593111236

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