Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School

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Teachers College Press, Mar 9, 2012 - Education - 220 pages
Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan set out an agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, 'Professional Capital' aims to combat the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching. It includes action guidelines for classroom teachers, administrators, schools and districts, and state and federal leaders.
 

Contents

Chapter1 Capital Idea
1
Chapter 2 Competing Views of Teaching
10
Chapter 3 Stereotypes of Teaching
24
Chapter 4 Investing in Capabilityand Commitment
46
Chapter 5 Professional Capital
78
Chapter 6 Professional Cultureand Communities
103
Chapter 7 Enacting Change
148
Notes
187
Index
210
About the Authors
220
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Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Michael Fullan is Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

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