Jousting for the New Generation: Challenges to Contemporary Schooling

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 4
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 16
INTROUCTION: PURPOSEFUL JOUSTING......Page 18
PART 1: NEW GENERATION LEARNING......Page 29
The class that matters......Page 34
Learning communities......Page 36
Electronic community......Page 38
Learning styles......Page 39
Young people as powerful learners: Amanda McGraw......Page 41
More wow, less yuk......Page 44
Intellectual character......Page 47
Welcome back, Socrates......Page 49
Disciplines are important: Mary Mason......Page 51
Habit and thinking: Mary Mason......Page 54
Educational fashion or contemporary imperatives......Page 57
Student-initiated learning......Page 59
Farewell to knowledge schooling?......Page 61
Personal computing: A dream being realised......Page 63
Jekyll and Hyde updated......Page 65
Just a moment, have we really got these practices right?......Page 67
PART 2: SCHOOLS: A STRUCTURAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 69
Alternative structures......Page 71
Schools have resisted change......Page 77
Beyond silos......Page 79
Thinking outside Australia......Page 80
Quantum schooling......Page 83
School obesity......Page 86
Notschool.net......Page 88
Experiment......Page 90
Dare we allow schools to be different?......Page 92
Curriculum and school makeovers: Mary Mason......Page 94
Family schooling......Page 98
From public/private to community schools......Page 99
A civic structure......Page 103
PART 3: SCHOOL: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 106
Trust me, I am a teacher......Page 108
New teachers, new teaching: Amanda McGraw......Page 110
Hands up, please!......Page 112
A sharing culture......Page 114
An open culture......Page 116
Managing ourselves......Page 118
Punishment or reform?......Page 120
A values-based culture......Page 123
A research culture......Page 124
From isolation to inclusiveness......Page 126
Locked in......Page 128
Polity and schools......Page 129
PART 4: LEADERSHIP AND THE LEADER......Page 132
On the brink: Amanda McGraw......Page 135
Principal isolation......Page 139
Principals as change agents......Page 143
Transitional leadership......Page 145
We need principals in schools......Page 147
Principal dreams......Page 149
Stumbling forward......Page 152
Principal: Powerful or powerless?......Page 154
Risky business......Page 156
Being mistaken for God......Page 157
Being human: A leader's weakness or strength?......Page 159
Followership......Page 161
PART 5: THE KNIGHT'S TALE......Page 164
The territory......Page 165
A territory map......Page 166
Chaos......Page 167
Dissonance......Page 168
Dreamer with a trowel......Page 173
Vulnerability......Page 175
Connection and community......Page 177
Continuity......Page 180
Coherence......Page 183
And you?......Page 184
References......Page 185