The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools (Development of Western Resources (Paperback))
By George W. Noblit.
Description
It s time to face an inevitable conclusion: School reform does not reform schools. That s because reform movements conceive of schools as being about transmitting knowledge. Yet, schools are not primarily about knowledge. They are about the construction of meaning and morality in the lives of students and communities. In this book, the authors argue that to break this recycling of reform efforts, we must understand how schools construct moral life. The focus is on two elementary schools: Rougemont, an historically African American school that was closed during school desegregation in the 19...
ISBN(s)
0791430804, 9780791430804
