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The Community Teacher:
A New Framework for Effective Urban Teaching
Peter C. Murrell, Jr.
Pub Date: Oct 2001, 208pages
Paperback: $24.95, ISBN: 0807741388
Cloth: $50, ISBN: 0807741396
 
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"Peter Murrell's keen insights and compelling recommendations push conventional thinking in teacher education. This is an essential book for all educators who are interested in groundbreaking strategies for improving schools."
—Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Candler Professor of Urban Education, Division of Educational Studies, Emory University"With a compelling analysis, Murrell seizes the movement to professionalize teaching and transforms it into a well-reasoned plan to solve the problem of inequitable access to quality teaching. If his plan is implemented, children in urban schools will learn more."
—Arthur E. Wise, President, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) This volume provides readers with a blueprint for the professional development of urban teachers (K-12) that fosters new communities of learning, embraces diversity, and prepares teachers through community and collaborative partnerships. Peter Murrell offers nothing less than a new system of practice for urban teacher preparation. His model of a "community teacher" encompasses more than just the subject matter taught-it also embraces the communities where urban youth live. Case studies illustrate Murrell's framework in action. |
