Looking Back & Thinking Forward: Reexaminations of Teaching & Schooling

By Beth Alberty and Lillian Weber

Book Overview

This book is a forward-looking, rather than retrospective, collection of the influential writings of Lillian Weber. The essays, many published here for the first time, represent the mature thinking of a progressive educator who, after 20 years of teaching young children, initiated dramatic changes in the public schools of New York City This important text: reclaims the importance of teachers being seen, by themselves and by others, as intelligent, capable, central, and committed to children's growth; confronts the issue of equity for minority students and shows how it can be interpreted in the approach both to curriculum and to the school's role in the community; probes the meaning of educating all children and of what education should be in a democracy; looks at the school, teachers, parents, and community as elements of the ecology of the child's educative experience; offers an original approach to the question of morality in education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807736732
• ISBN13: 9780807736739
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"