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ERIC Number: EJ544329
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Visioning the "Little Red Schoolhouse" for the 21st Century.
Peel, Joseph; McCary, C. E., III
Phi Delta Kappan, v78 n9 p702-05 May 1997
To counter the factory model, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank (North Carolina) Public Schools have adopted a knowledge-work organization metaphor and applied it to four school subsystems: organizational structure, student accomplishments, teaching and learning, and assessment. Viewing the school as a knowledge-work organization elevates students to apprentice worker and customer roles and drastically alters teacher-student relationships. (MLH)
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Institutional Mission, Metaphors, School Organization, Student Evaluation, Student Role, Teacher Student Relationship
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Knowledge Utilization; Pasquotank County School District; Schlechty (Phillip)