Classrooms as Learning Communities: What's In It For Schools?

by Chris Watkins

Book Overview

In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge. This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms through:

an integration of what's best in learning and what's best in the social life of classrooms a vision of the role of the teacher that is more creative and more related to the commitments of teachers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415327806
• ISBN13: 9780415327800
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"