Schools for an Information Age: Reconstructing Foundations for Learning and Teaching

Age Range: Adult
Authors: Byrd L. Jones and Robert W. Maloy

Publication Date: 1996
Number of Pages: 416
ISBN: 0-275-95396-3
Cost: $29.95 (PB), $65.00 (Cloth)

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Phone: (203) 226-3571

Publisher's Description:

This text is addressed to prospective and practicing teachers who believe schools must be fundamentally reformed to meet student needs in an information age. Drawing on interviews with frontline educators, the authors integrate descriptive accounts of learning and teaching in schools today with emerging multicultural curricula, information technologies, organizational structures that support innovations, and democratic dialogue. Jones and Maloy offer analytic perspectives for rethinking the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of education along with strategies for teacher renewal and organizational change.

Reviews

"...A penetrating analysis of the changes in American society and the American economy and how our schools might be a force for equity and democrary in an information age." -- Robert L. Woodbury, Director McCormick Institute, UMass/Boston

" ...A unique, engrossing, professional resource. The reader is given a keen understanding of the multiple realities present in a society in transition." -- Susan D. Savitt, Ed.D. Superintendent of Schools, North Babylon Union Free School District

" Jones and Maloy reconnect schools with community, and our confused, post-industrial society with rich futures made possible through informational technologies and shifts in our current beliefs about the purpose of schools in a democracy. Most importantly, they make us think, about our schools, our children and our role in determining the the future of that democracy. This is an important book." -- Robert S. Peterkin Director of the Urban Superintendents Program Harvard Graduate School of Education

Contents

Illustrations -- Preface -- Thinking about Future Schools - Schools and Society -- Learning and

Teaching in Schools -- Work, Well-being, and Information -- Purposeful Organizations -- Social

Choices and Public Policies -- Cooperating in Multicultural Settings -- Transmitting Constructed

Knowledge -- Productive Schools and Workplaces -- Choosing Futures -- References -- Index

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