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001 2001033180
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005 20050607111516.0
008 010330s2001 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0807741337 (cloth : alk paper)
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050 00 $aLB1117$b.C28 2001
082 00 $a372.18/09743/8$221
100 1 $aCarini, Patricia F.
245 10 $aStarting strong :$ba different look at children, schools, and standards /$cPatricia F. Carini ; foreword by Joseph Featherstone.
260 $aNew York :$bTeachers College Press,$cc2001.
300 $axix, 220 p., [4] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
440 4 $aThe Practitioner inquiry series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-214) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction -- Prospect-Ideas and Values in the Making -- Locating Descriptive Inquiry in the Public Schools -- Paired Books Foretelling a Series -- Mirror Images: Talks and Book -- Grouping the Talks -- PART I -- ON A HUMAN SCALE: WORKs, LIVES, SCHOOLS -- 1 Poets of Our Lives -- Human Capacity, Widely Distributed -- The Works of Three Children -- Work -- For the Worker to Not Have Work -- Views of Self, of Freedom, of Education -- 2 "In the Thick of the Tangle What Clear Line Persists" -- Three Stories -- Transcription of Faye's Story -- A Story Many Times Told -- The Story Catalyzes -- The Stories Slip Their Moorings Eyes -- The Race Toward Lightness of Being; The Neutering of Language -- 3 Another Slant on Knowledge -- The Newton/Goethe Story -- A Retelling of the Newton/Goethe Story -- Children and Adolescents as Makers of Knowledge -- A Personal Encounter with the Mayflower -- The Goethe/Newton Story; The Mayflower Story -- Two More Stories: "Rain" and "Real Thinking" -- Connecting the Stories: Learning from Them -- PART II -- THE POLmCS OF EDUCATING/THE POLmCS OF WORK -- 4 Schools in the Making -- The School as a Work -- Desire and the Educative Surround -- The School as a Collective Work -- To Keep the School in the Making -- 5 "What Would We Create?" -- The Desire to Make; The Love of a Medium -- Economics and the Definition of Work -- Effort Rewarded by Money; What We Are Paid to Do -- Sickness/Health/Work -- "What Would We Create?" -- The Work of Caring For; Women's Work -- The Narrowing of Social Thinking and Policy -- Extending the Welfare Example -- Sustaining a Vision: A Collective Work -- 6 "To Believe Ourselves' -- Drift -- Two Worlds and Worlds Apart -- Split Worlds and the Consequences of Split Vision -- "To Believe Ourselves" -- 1997 -- Roots -- The Work That Needs Doing -- PART III -- STANDARDS IN THE MAKING -- 7 "We Love the Things We Love for What They Are" -- Resistance, Action, and Falling Short -- Regeneration -- Making and Remaking What Is Ever in the Making -- Resisting Children; Fearing Humanness -- Other Values Than Perfection; Other Aims Than Paradise -- With What Then Do I Face This Fear? -- Meditation: On Description -- 8 Valuing the Immeasurable -- Manyness -- Affirming Pluralism -- What Drives Education? -- There Is That in Learning Which Resists Measurement -- Getting to Know the Children We Teach -- Meditation: On Number -- How Do I Choose? What is at Stake? -- Name and Number -- The Primary Value of Number -- Descriptive Numbers and Metalevel Statistics -- A Number Story -- PART IV -- GENERATION/REGENERATION -- 9 "To Help Us Start Strong" -- To Give Weight to Being; Reflecting, I Witness -- "Things Are Not as Simple as You Think" -- A Bird in the Hand -- The Gift of Youth to Age: Our Other Chance -- Jenny's Story -- Lessons from Jenny -- Stories Not Told; Questions Left Hanging -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
650 0 $aChild development$zVermont$zBennington.
650 0 $aSchool children$zVermont$zBennington.
650 0 $aSchools$xStandards$zVermont$zBennington.
610 20 $aProspect School (North Bennington, Vt.)
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001033180.html