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ERIC Number: EJ525327
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-5841
Activators and Impediments to Learner Centered Schools.
Astuto, Terry A.; Clark, David L.
Theory into Practice, v34 n4 p243-49 Aut 1995
Identifies and comments on the educational assumptions, policies, and practices that are in harmony with learner- centered schools (processes and purposes of schooling, people in schools, and structure of schools), noting those that serve as repressors to achieving such schools (meritocracy and instrumentality, competition and standards, repressive policy directions, and bureaucracy). (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Politics of Education, Public Education, Public Schools, Resistance to Change, Student Centered Curriculum, Student Role, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Learner Centered Instruction
Note: Theme issue title: "Creating Learner Centered Schools."