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Title: Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity (Professional Learning) by Andy Hargreaves ISBN: 0-8077-4359-3 Publisher: Teachers College Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best Andy Hargreaves yet!
Comment: Andy Hargreaves's new book is a best seller.
I am always impressed by that uncommon trait of commonsense in Hargreaves's writing. In the 1990s writing on learning organisations was very topical. However at the turn of the century learning communities and learning societies took precedence.
Pearls of wisdom abound throughout the book:
In the Introduction Hargreaves draws the links between living in a knowledge economy and a knowledge society.
The knowledge economy primarily serves the private good. The knowledge society also encompasses the public good. Our school have to prepare young people for both of them (Hargreaves, 2003, p.1)
Hargreaves also points out that the term "knowledge society" is a misnomer and argues that a more appropriate term is learning society (Hargreaves, 2003, p.3).
Hargreaves describes teaching as a paradoxical profession where teachers are expected to help create a knowledge society and at the same time right the wrongs that pervade modern western communities. In a very quotable section Hargreaves discusses the different approaches of his dentist and teachers towards professional development.
In dealing with insecurity and Hargreaves notes that loyalty between the worker and the company has been replaced with contracts.
Hargreaves's warning that curriculum standards compromise teachers' options:
The micromanagement of standards-based reform has deleterious effects on teachers' teaching, on teachers' students and on teachers' relationship to their work and with one another (Hargreaves, 2003, p.90).
This is a great book. It is well written and eloquent. Leaders should be readers, and Andy Hargreaves's new book makes professional reading engaging and interesting. Well done Andy Hargreaves.
Teachers College Press is to be congratulated on adding Andy Hargreaves to their list of authors. This book will help put TCP back into a field of educational excellence alongside Jossey-Bass and Corwin Press.
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Title: Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education by Peter M. Senge, Nelda H. Cambron McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Art Kleiner, Janis Dutton, Bryan Smith ISBN: 0385493231 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: What's Worth Fighting for in Your School? by Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves ISBN: 080773554X Publisher: George Scheer & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Leading in a Culture of Change by Michael Fullan ISBN: 0787953954 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 20 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The New Meaning of Educational Change by Michael Fullan ISBN: 0807740691 Publisher: Teachers College Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan ISBN: 0761938737 Publisher: Corwin Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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