1st Edition

Collaboration in Education

Edited By Judith J. Slater, Ruth Ravid Copyright 2010
250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Collaboration in Education  establishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame of reference for others doing this work. This volume will help readers to ask the correct... Read more
Introduction: The Meme of Collaboration  Judith J. Slater  Section I: Professional Development Schools  1. When a Look Back Can Be a Step Forward:  An Analysis of Two PDS Partnerships for Education Change and Improvement  Linda A. Catelli  2. Growing a Multi-Site Professional Development School  John E. Henning, Becky Wilson Hawbaker, Debra S. Lee and Cynthia F. McDonald  Section II: Consultation  3. Schools of Ambition: Bridging Professional and Institutional Boundaries  Moira Hulme, Ian Menter, Deirdre Kelly and Sheelagh Rusby  4. Ten School Districts and One University: A Collaborative Consultation  Mary Phillips Manke and Rachael Marrier  5. Elementary Public School and University Partnership: Promoting and Analyzing Professional Development Processes of School Teachers  Maria da Graça Nicoletti Mizukami, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues Reali and Regina Maria Simões Puccinelli Tancredi  Section III: One-to-One Collaboration  6. Policy Development and Sustainability: How a Rural County Maximized Resources through Collaboration and Managed Change  David M. Callejo Pérez, Sebastián R. Díaz and Anonymous  7. School-University Collaboration as Mutual Professional Development  Efrat Sara Efron, Maja Miskovic and Ruth Ravid  8. A Public/Private Partnership in a Diverse Community  Maria Pacino  Section IV: Multiple Configurations  9. Reflections on a Cross University-Urban School Partnership: The Critical Role of Humanizing the Process  Babette Benken and Nancy Brown  10. A System’s Perspective for Professional Development in Science and Mathematics Education: The Texas Regional Collaboratives  James P. Barufaldi and Linda L.G. Brown  11. Conducting Research that Practitioners Think is Relevant: Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium (MERC)  R. Martin Reardon and James McMillan  12. A Miracle in Process: What it Takes to Make an Educational Partnership a True Collaboration  Kathleen Shinners  13. Collaboration and Equitable Reform in Australian Schools: Beyond the Rhetoric  Joanne Deppeler and David Huggins  14. Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons of Longitudinal Research Collaborations  Elizabeth A. Sloat, Joan F. Beswick and J. Douglas Willms  Section V: Postsecondary  15. Reciprocity in Collaboration:  Academy for Teacher Excellence’s Partnerships  Belinda Bustos Flores and Lorena Claeys  16. Reconceptualizing Leadership and Power: The Collaborative Experiences of Women Educational Leaders  Debra Nakama and Joanne Cooper  17. A CLASSIC © Approach to Collaboration: Documenting a Multi-State University and Multi-School District Partnership  Janet Penner-Williams, Della Perez, Diana Gonzales Worthen, Socorro Herrera and Kevin Murry  Section VI: Technology Projects  18. School-University Collaboration for Technology Integration: Resistance, Risk-Taking, and Resilience  Cathy Risberg and Arlene Borthwick  Section VII: Interagency Collaboration  19. Project FIRST: Families, Intercollegiate Collaboration, and Routes to Studying Teaching  Mary D. Burbank and Rosemarie Hunter  20. Urban Teacher Residencies: Collaborating to Reconceptualize Urban Teacher Preparation  Wendy Gardiner and Carrie Kamm  21. Sharing Power in an Interagency Collaboration  Jack Leonard and Lisa Gonsalves  22. Collaborating for Labor Consciousness: The Education & Labor Collaborative  Adrienne Andi Sosin, Leigh David Benin, Rob Linné and Joel I. Sosinsky  Conclusion

Biography

Judith J. Slater is Professor Emerita, Florida International University. Her books include Anatomy of a Collaboration: Study of a College of Education/Public School Partnership (1996), Acts of Alignment (2000), editor of Teen Life in Asia (2004), co-editor of The Freirean Legacy (2002), Pedagogy of Place (2004), Educating for Democracy in a Changing World: Understanding Freedom in Contemporary America (2007), and War Against the Professions: The Impact of Politics and Economics on the Idea of the University (2009).

Ruth Ravid is Professor, National-Louis University. Her books include The Many Faces of School-University Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Partnerships (2001), Practical Statistics for Educators (2005), Workbook to Accompany Practical Statistics for Educators (2005) and Practical Statistics for Business: An Introduction to Business Statistics (2008).