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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 333 064 UD 028 061 AUTHOR Lieberman, Ann, Ed. TITLE Schools as Collaborative Cultures: Creating the Future Now. REPORT NO 1SBN-1-85000-673-3 PUB DATE 90 NOTE 264p. AVAILABLE FROMThe Falmer Press, Taylor and Francis In., 1900Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007. PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Collected Works- General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Cooperation; Educational Change; Elementary Secondary Education; *Organizational Change; *Organizational Development; *ParticipativeDecision Making; Professional Autonomy; *School Organization; *School Restructuring ABSTRACT This collection of 12 essaysexamines the school's need to establish a collaborative environmentas a precondition for its own development. The following chapters explorethe necessary shift in schools from a bureaucratic toa professional mode: (1) "Recanting Bureaucracy: A Democratic Structure forLeadership in Schools" (D. L. Clarke and J. M. Meloy); (2)"Teacher Professionalism: Why and How" (L. Darling-Hammond);and (3) "What Are Schools of Education For?" (S. B. Sarason).The following chapters examine critical issues of fundamentalchange: (4) "A Fundamental Puzzle of School Reform" (L. Cuban* (5)"Education Reform Strategies: Will They Increase Teacher Commitment?" (S.J. Rosenholz);(6) "Teaching Incentives: Constraintand Variety" (G. Sykes); and (7) "Healing Our Schools:Restoring the Heart" (T. E. Deal). The following chaptersinvestigate the changing roles, relationships, and culture of the school:(8) "The Social Realities of Teaching" A. Liebermann and L. Miller);(9) "Teachers as Colleagues" (J. W. Little); (10) "Leadershipfor Curriculum Improvement: The School Administrator's Role" (G.A. Griffin); (11) "Staff Development and School Change" (M.W. McLaughlin and D. D. Marsh); and (12) "Schools for theTwenty-first Century: The Conditions for Invention" (P. C. Schlechty).Two figures are included. Each chapter inc)udes a list ofreferences. (FMW) ************ ***** **************************************** ************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best thatcan be made from the original document. ******* ******* ************ ************************** ******* ************ SCHOOLS AS COLLABORATIVE CULTURES: CREATING THE ANNFUTURE LIEBERMAN NOW. ED ITED BY PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRA TEDBY C>trit TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) U $ DEPARTMENT Or EDUCATION f E dko, RaMa'ch and ,rhproverhehi riuc A TIPNAL SOURLE 5 INFORMATION C F NYIR f RIC T,rs 10, nas Deer e{,,Che. e0 a% e ved the pers. ocjah zaT 4,1,31 ^cj M hange% t 1.F.M ale cL',,tiur tqw, 0,-sa'ed r "he' 1, ' tio r 5 , The Fahner Press SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT ANO THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE SERIES: 3 2 BEST COPY AVAILABLE SchoolsasCollaborative Cultures: Creating the Future Now .4 School Development and the Management of Change Series Series Editors: Peter Holly and Geoff Southworth Cambridge Institute of Education Cambridge, C82 2BX, UK I THE DEVELOPING SCHOOL Peter Holly and Geoff Southworth, Cambridge Institute k!l'Education, UK 2 HERE COMES THE ASSEMBLY MAN A Year in the Life of a Primary School Fred Sedgtvick, UK 3 SCHOOLS AS COLLABORATIVE CULTURES Creating the Future Now Edited by Ann Lieberman, University of Washington, USA Forthcoming tides in the series: SEMI-DETACHED TEACHERS Building Support and Advisory Relationships in Classrooms Colin Bion, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, UK ASSESSMENT AND TESTING IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL Colin Conner, Cambridge Institute of Education. UK PRIMARY EDUCATION From Plowden :o the 1990s Norman Thomas, Honorary Professor at the I Iniversity of Warwick, UK THE MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL Implementing the National Curriculum in Science and Design Technology Anne Pennell and David Alexander, Bedfordshire Education Service, UK School Development and the Management of Change Series: 3 SchoolsasCollaborative Cultures: Creating the Future Now Edited by Ann Lieberman ®The Falmer Press (A member of the Taylor & Francis Grouro New YorkPhiladelphiaLondon UK The Falmer Press. Ra akine Road. Basingstoke,Hampshire, RG24 OPR USA The Faimer Press, laylor 8: Francis 1nc., 1900Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 ::Selection ape4.editorial material copyright Ann Lieberman Ail ri3Ovs reserved. No part of this publkation may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted, inany form or hy any means, elearonic, mechanical, photocopyink recording,or otherwise, withi-a permission in writing .frorn the Publisher First published 1990 British Library Cataloguing in PublicationData Schools as collaborative cultures: creatingthe future now. (School development and themanagement of change). 1. United States. Schools I. Lieberman, Ann 11Series 371',00973 ISBN 1-85000-672-5 ISBN 1-85000-673-3 phk Jacket design by Caroline Archer Typeset in 10i/11 Bembo by Chapterhouse, The Cloisters, Formby L373PX Printed and bound in Great Britain by laylor& Francis (Printers) Ltd. Basingstoke on paper which ha,a specified pH value on final paper manufacture of not less than 7.5 and is therefore'acid free'. Contents Acknowledments Series Editors' Preface ix Introduction Xi Part 1: Understanding What We Value Chapter 1Recanting Bureaucracy: A Democratic Structure for Leadership in Schools David L. Clark and Judith M. Meloy 3 Chapter 2Teacher Professionalism: Why and How Linda Darling-Hammond 25 Chapter 3What Are Schools of Education For? Seymour E. Sarason 51 Part 2: Examining Critical Issues of Fundamental Change Chapter 1A Fundamental Puzzle of School Reform LarryCuban 71 Chapter 5Education Reform Strategies: Will They Increase Teacher Commitment? Susan J. Rosenholtz 79 Chapter 6Teaching Incentives: Constraint and Variety GarySykes 103 Chapter 7Healing Our Schools: Restoring the Heart Terrence E. Deal 127 Part 3: Changing the Roles, Relationships and the Culture of Schools 151 Chapter 8The Social Realities of Teaching Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller 153 Chapter 9Teachers as Colleagues Judith Warren Little 165 Schools as Collaborative Cultures: Creating the Future Now Chapter 10 Leadership for Curriculum Improvement: The School Administrator's Role Gary A. Gnffin 195 Chapter 11Staff Development and School Change Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin and David D. Marsh 213 Chapter 12 Schools for the Twenty-first Century: The Conditions for Invention Phillip C. Schkchty 233 Notes on Contributors 257 Index 259 vi Acknowledgments Chapter 1David L. Clark and Judith M. Miov. 'Recanting Bureaucracy: A Democratic Structure for Leadership in Schools' is reproduced with permissionfrom Sergiovanni, T. M. and Moore, J. H. (Eds) (1989) Sdwolinjor Tomorwu,, Boston, Allyn and Bacon. Chapter 2Linda Dar:ing-Hammond, 'Teacher Professionalism: Why and How' is a paper commissioned by Ann Lieberman for the Task Force on Professionalism in New York City, April, 1988. Chapter 3Seymour B. Sarason, 'What are Schools of Education For?' is a speech delivered at the 50th Anniversary Education Convocation Address,Syracuse University, September 1983. Chapter 4 LarryCuban, 'A Fundamental Puzzle of School Reform' first appeared in Kappan January1988, pp. 341-44 and is reproduced with permission from Pauline Gough, Kappan, Box 789, Bloomington, Indiana. Chapter 5Susan). Rosenholm 'Education Reform Strategies: Will They Increase Teacher Commitment?' first appeared inAmerican journal 0.1- Education,Volume 95, 4, August 1987, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, pp. 534-62. Chapter 6Gary Sykes, 'Teaching Incentives: Constraint and Variety' was first published by the NCREL for the proceedings of a conference and is reproduced with permission from the North Central Regional Laboratory (NCREL), Illinois, USA. Chapter7 Terrence E. Deal, 'Healing Our Schools: Restoring the Heart' is adapted from 'Cultural Change: Opportunities, Silent Killer, or Metamorphosis?' in Kirkman, R., Saxton, M. and Serpa, R. (Eds) (1985)Gainint? Control of the Corporah. Culture,San Francisco, Jossey Bass, pp. 292-331. Chapter 8Ann Lieberman and Lynne Miller, 'The Social Realities of Teaching';s reproduced with permission from Lieberman, A. and Miller, L. (1980)'1.eachers: Their World and Their Work,Alexandria, Virginia, The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Chapter 9Judith Warren Little, 'Teachers as Colleaguesis reproduced with permission from V. Richardson-Koehler (1987)Educators' Handbook: A Research Perspeaive,New York, Longrnan, pp. 491-518. Schools as Collaborative Cultures: Creating theFuture Now Chapter 10 Gary Griffin,'Leadershipfor Curriculum Improvement: The School Administrator's Role' is taken from Section Three, 'Issues of Leadership' inTanner, L. N. (Ed) (1988) Critical Issues in Curriculum.the Eighty-seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Part 1, Chicago, University of ChicagoPress, pp. 244-86. Reproduced with permission from Kenneth J. Rehage of the NSSE. Chapter 1/An earlier version of McLaughlin and Marsh's chapter, 'Staff Development and School Change' appeared inStaff Development: New Demands, New Realities, New Perspectives,(1978), New York, Teachers College Press and is reproduced with permission from Carole Saltz, Teachers College Press. Chapter12 Phillip Schlechty, 'Schools for the Twenty-first Century: The Conditions for Invention' first appeared in theJournal .± Teacher Educati,m,44. and is reproduced with permission from the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education. Series Editors' Preface This book is a collection of essays' from abrace of the best commentators American education has