ERIC Number: ED407721
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 260
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ISBN: ISBN-0-8039-6314-9
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The Process-Centered School: Sustaining a Renaissance Community.
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Liebmann, Rosemarie M., Ed.
The time has come to shift the focus from the "what" of knowledge (content) to the "how" of learning (processes). This book is the third in a series of three books in the Process as Content trilogy. The book offers suggestions and strategies for educators beginning the journey of transferring education into a process-oriented paradigm. The book views redesign of the curriculum as the main component of re-visioning the school. Following the foreword by Peter M. Senge, and the preface to the trilogy and the preface to the process-centered school both by Arthur L. Costa and Rosemarie M. Liebman, the essays include: (1) "Constructing the Metaphors for Process" (Diane P. Zimmerman); (2) "Spreading the Good Word: Communicating with the School Community To Support Change" (Alison Preece); (3) "Organizational Learning: The Essential Journey" (Laura Lipton and Robert Melamede); (4) "Designing Learning for a New Work Environment: Key Values and Skills" (Michael A. Pennella); (5) "Staff Development: A Process Approach" (Fred H. Wood); (6) "Preparing New Teachers: Process as Curriculum" (Gloria Appelt Slick); (7) "Developing Adaptive Schools in a Quantum Universe" (Robert J. Garmston and Bruce Wellman); (8) "The Norms of Collaboration: Attaining Communicative Competence" (William Baker, Arthur L. Costa, and Stanley Shalit); (9) "The Process of Coaching: Mediating Growth toward Holonomy" (Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston); (10) "Developing a Scoring Rubric for a Process School" (Charles Lavaroni); (11) "Capturing the Spirit: Process Pervades the Organization" (Joseph M. Saban); (12) "Searching for Evidence: Toward a Renaissance Community" (Arthur L. Costa and Rosemarie M. Liebman); and (13) "Change: The Journey Begins" (Arthur L. Costa and Rosemarie M. Liebman). The prologue by Louis Rubin is titled "The Essence: Process as Content." Contains 13 figures, 9 tables, an index, and individual chapter references. (LMI)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Development, Professional Development, School Restructuring, Scoring Rubrics
Corwin Press, Inc., 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-2218; e-mail: order@corwin.sagepub.com; telephone: 805-499-9774 (hardcover: ISBN-0-8039-6313-0, $69.95; softcover: ISBN-0-8039-6314-9, $29.95).
Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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