A decade after publication of his best-selling book, Barth returns to the schoolhouse. Drawing from a career committed to building schools rich in community, learning, and leadership, he shows how to accomplish the most difficult task of school reform-transforming a school's culture so that it will be hospitable to human learning. In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies.
Author(s): Roland S. Barth
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 224
Learning by Heart......Page 1
Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
The Author......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
1. Thinking Otherwise......Page 28
2. Culture in Question......Page 34
3. A Community of Learners......Page 48
4. Information Rich and Experience Poor......Page 58
5. Exploration......Page 68
6. Craft Knowledge......Page 80
7. Reflection......Page 92
8. Teacher Leadership......Page 102
9. Impediments and Opportunities......Page 114
10. Teachers and Principals......Page 132
11. On Becoming a Principal......Page 146
12. Conditions for Learning......Page 170
13. Some Questions......Page 194
14. Risk......Page 210
15. Coming to a Vision......Page 220
Epilogue......Page 236
Appendix A: A Letter to Parents......Page 242
Appendix B: Some Thoughts on “Conditions for Learning”......Page 248
Notes......Page 260
Index......Page 266
