Basic School Community for Learning

By Ernest L. Boyer

Book Overview

A micro-community approach to education with vision and values The U.S. education system has remained somewhat static as the world changes furiously around it. The Basic School: A Community for Learning offers a model for the future. The classroom -- and by extension, the school -- is positioned as a little community focused on learning. Teachers are empowered with real leadership, parents are partners, resources are rich, and the curriculum is coherent and centralized. This book describes how to bring this dream-school into reality through a series of small steps forward that, over time, become a journey through progress.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931050480
• ISBN13: 9780931050480
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Boyer's "The Basic School" -inspirational and humbling.

Ernest Boyer's book, "The basic school", is the result of considerable research and involvement in elementary school education. Boyer has set out what is probably the most comprehensive description of what excellent education is. For all principals and teachers who are buried beneath the avalanche of daily crises, the book offers a periscope, a `big picture view of education' and a sense of direction. I see this book as one of the most comprehensive, inspirational and practical books on education that I have read but I am humbled when I realise how much further we in education still have to go. If the book has one shortcoming it is that it's a brilliant description of contemporary education and it does not engage in the debate of future pedagogy and future schooling. Still, if you want to be inspired, revitalised or even educationally `quickened' this is book great value, a great read and a great motivational tool. NEIL MACNEILL Principal