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Title: What's Worth Fighting for Out There? by Andy Hargreaves, Michael Fullan ISBN: 0-8077-3752-6 Publisher: Teachers College Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It's worth for creating a better education
Comment: Today¡¦s education has its new focus on outside of the campus rather than traditional emphasis on inside of the campus. That is, for significantly improving the effectiveness of teaching-learning process, educators have to go far beyond the campus to actively interact with the communities. However, many educational reforms frustrate teachers¡¦ confidence in teaching and distress stakeholders¡¦ reliability to schools. In this book, the authors suggest two key points to school teachers and principals for making education a positive change happen in today¡¦s complex society. Educators have to go deeper into the fundamental purposes of education for recreating teaching-learning effectiveness. Educators must also go wider to develop new relationships with stakeholders and to utilize various social resources for getting supports. I agree that any changes of educational policies or reforms should not harm people¡¦s trust to education. Educators should build their passions and moralities in teaching and examine their teaching quality all the time. They must actively communicate with the communities to understand stakeholders¡¦ needs and to reinforce mutual expectations and interests for optimizing educational hopes.
This book provides educators, parents, and governments with many basic, but excellent, ideas and guidelines about creating relationships between the school and the publics. It also presents some thoughts to lead businesses to play active roles in associating with schools. Although the exemplified scenarios of this book are based on the Canadian education, the similar situations could be happened in other countries and the guidelines could be applied to other countries¡¦ education because the development of technology and globalization shorten the discrepancy between countries. Furthermore, although the authors only present general ideas and guidelines that many people have already known to help educators make change positively, it should be worth to recommend reading. This is only one of three series books. I believe that readers will create a whole picture to the dilemmas in today¡¦s education and take right steps to concur those difficulties after having an overall reading in ¡§What¡¦s Worth Fighting for¡¨ trilogy.
Rating: 4
Summary: What's Worth Fighting for Out There
Comment: Today¡¦s education has its new focus on outside of the campus rather than traditional emphasis on inside of the campus. That is, for significantly improving the effectiveness of teaching-learning process, educators have to go far beyond the campus to actively interact with the communities. However, many educational reforms frustrate teachers¡¦ confidence in teaching and distress stakeholders¡¦ reliability to schools. In this book, the authors suggest two key points to school teachers and principals for making education a positive change happen in today¡¦s complex society. Educators have to go deeper into the fundamental purposes of education for recreating teaching-learning effectiveness. Educators must also go wider to develop new relationships with stakeholders and to utilize various social resources for getting supports. I agree that any changes of educational policies or reforms should not harm people¡¦s trust to education. Educators should build their passions and moralities in teaching and examine their teaching quality all the time. They must actively communicate with the communities to understand stakeholders¡¦ needs and to reinforce mutual expectations and interests for optimizing educational hopes.
This book provides educators, parents, and governments with many basic, but excellent, ideas and guidelines about creating relationships between the school and the publics. It also presents some thoughts to lead businesses to play active roles in associating with schools. Although the exemplified scenarios of this book are based on the Canadian education, the similar situations could be happened in other countries and the guidelines could be applied to other countries¡¦ education because the development of technology and globalization shorten the discrepancy between countries. Furthermore, although the authors only present general ideas and guidelines that many people have already known to help educators make change positively, it should be worth to recommend reading. This is only one of three series books. I believe that readers will create a whole picture to the dilemmas in today¡¦s education and take right steps to concur those difficulties after having an overall reading in ¡§What¡¦s Worth Fighting for¡¨ trilogy.
Rating: 4
Summary: There are things worth fighting for!
Comment: I found this book to be uplifting and hopeful. The authors encourage educators to "go deeper" in our purpose, passion, emotion, and hope. I believe our moral purpose as educators is especially important. Hargreaves and Fullan put forth four "purposes of schooling" for educators to consider as their moral purpose - to love and care, to serve, to empower, and to learn. Not surprisingly, these four purposes are the same important elements used by educators to raise self-esteem in their students.
The authors encourage educators to "go wider." Instead of being wary of "what's out there" we are encouraged to move towards the danger. Many teachers espouse collaborative relationships within the walls of the schools. Hargreaves and Fullan push us to move beyond the walls into the world "out there." Collaboration with other organizations and with other individuals in the community will help us as educators. The array of issues students bring with them to school makes it necessary for us to reach out for assistance and resources. Collaboration with outside entities will take us beyond our "comfort zones" as we develop skills, knowledge, and capacities more suited to the working demands of the information age.
Finally, the authors tell us - "refuse to mind our own business." This means taking political action against wrong-headed reform. This certainly means resisting "getting better at a bad game." We must redefine the business we're in. If we don't redefine it for ourselves, there are plenty of people out there who will do it for us - many with disastrous results.
I think educators will find this an easy read with an inspiring message that encourages us to take action.
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Title: What's Worth Fighting for in Your School? by Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves ISBN: 080773554X Publisher: George Scheer & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: What's Worth Fighting for in the Principalship? by Michael Fullan ISBN: 0807737054 Publisher: Teachers College Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Leading in a Culture of Change by Michael Fullan ISBN: 0787953954 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 20 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The New Meaning of Educational Change by Michael Fullan ISBN: 0807740691 Publisher: Teachers College Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education by Peter M. Senge, Nelda H. Cambron McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Art Kleiner, Janis Dutton, Bryan Smith ISBN: 0385493231 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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