Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School Reform

Community, Collaboration, and Collegiality in School ReformA "tale from the trenches" of educational reform, this book chronicles a year in the life of four teachers as they implement an innovative new program. This remarkably candid "tale from the trenches" follows four teachers as they implement "Connections"an interdisciplinary, inclusive program option for ninth grade students at "Cedar City" High School. As Sheryl (English), Dan (science), Bernie (social studies), and Tim (special education) forge bonds

many of them international in scope

At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with “modernity” that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century cultural studies

it reveals a complex society

In view of growing concerns about future water scarcity

Such a sense of place can establish limits on individual action and on what a community may demand of individuals

Aihwa Ong's nuanced approach to the Malay women factory workers' experiences of the contradictions of modern globalized capitalism has inspired subsequent generations of feminist ethnographers in their explorations of key questions of power

elevated CO2

including residential institutions

Voicing Ourselves examines a year's worth of such sessions

Narrated by an unnamed seven-year-old girl

and insightful environmentalist

geriatric rehabilitation