Re-Creating Schools: Places Where Everyone Learns and Likes It - Hardcover

Myers, Charles B.; Simpson, Douglas J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803964250 ISBN 13: 9780803964259

Publisher: Corwin, 1997

Synopsis

Their book presents a vision of a school in which teachers and students construct their knowledge rather than receive it from others. It gives practical steps to achieve this and addresses the necessary role changes of educators.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas J. Simpson, Ph. D., is Professor and Helen DeVitt Jones Chair in Teacher Education, Texas Tech University.  He is the author or co-author of numerous articles, reviews, chapters and books, including John Dewey and the Art of Teaching, The Pedagodfathers: The Lords of Education, Recreating Schools: Places Where Everyone Learns and Likes It, The Teacher as Philosopher, and Educational Reform: A Deweyan Perspective. He has held tenured positions at the University of Louisville, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Tennessee State University, and Texas Christian University and taught in the fields of ethics and teaching, curriculum and instruction, school psychology, and educational theory. He spends time each week at Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School where he interacts with students about ethical, historical, and geographical interests. He is a former president of the American Educational Studies Association and the Society of Professors of Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0803964250
• ISBN 13: 9780803964259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200