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The Handbook of Leadership and Professional Learning Communities

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  • © 2009

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  1. Carol A. Mullen
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge and Vitality

    1. Introducing Collaborative Communities With Edge and Vitality

      • Carol A. Mullen
      Pages 1-9

  3. Organization and the Learning Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Understanding Schools as Organizations: Implications for Realizing Professional Learning Communities

      • Bob L. Johnson Jr.
      Pages 17-28

    3. Forming School—University Partnerships to Create Professional Learning Communities That Improve Schools

      • Leonard R. Goduto, Virginia Doolittle, Donald Leake
      Pages 29-37

    4. Developing Professional Learning Communities in a University—Public School Partnership

      • Robert V. Bullough Jr., Steven C. Baugh
      Pages 39-49

    5. Professional Development Schools: Learning Communities for Leaders and Teachers as Change Agents

      • Maria Sudeck, Virginia Doolittle, Peter Rattigan
      Pages 51-58

    6. Teacher Education Is Everybody’s Business: Northern Guilford High School—A Professional Development Community

      • Carl Lashley, Jewell Cooper, Jessica McCall, Joseph Yeager, Christine Ricci
      Pages 59-71

    7. The University Connection: Transformational Learning That Enhances Professional Learning Communities

      • Sandra Harris, Vicky Farrow, Hollis Lowery-Moore
      Pages 73-84

    8. A Vision for Linking Pre-K and Higher Education Through Learning Communities

      • John R. Hoyle, Timothy M. Kutka
      Pages 85-97

  4. Democracy and the Learning Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Forming Culturally Responsive Learning Communities in Demographically Changing Schools

      • Camille Wilson Cooper, Romy M. Allen, Silvia Cristina Bettez
      Pages 103-114

    3. Transforming the Space of Schools into Learning Communities: Teacher Leadership as Pedagogy of Democratic Place

      • Patrick M. Jenlink, Karen Embry Jenlink
      Pages 115-126

    4. Catalysts and Barriers: Practitioner Concepts of Professional Learning Communities as Democracies in Action

      • Carol A. Mullen, Sandra Harris
      Pages 127-137

    5. Faculty of Color Constructing Communities at Predominantly White Institutions

      • Donyell L. Roseboro, C. P. Gause
      Pages 139-149

    6. Support for Women Leaders: The Visible and the Invisible

      • Jane H. Applegate, Penelope M. Earley, Jill M. Tarule
      Pages 151-160

  5. Technology and the Learning Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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    2. Professional Learning Communities and the Culture of Digital Technology: A Philosophic Inquiry

      • Glenn M. Hudak
      Pages 165-175

    3. Virtual Learning Communities: Encountering Digital Culture, Politics, and Capital

      • Roymieco A. Carter, Leila E. Villaverde
      Pages 177-188

    4. Graduate Students’ and Preservice Teachers’ Electronic Communications in a Community of Practice

      • Janet C. Richards, Susan V. Bennett, Kim G. Thomas
      Pages 189-200
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About this book

Contributors offer ideas, applications, and resources for helping leaders and educators tackle the challenges of building successful professional learning communities. This wide-ranging text will prove indispensable for any democratically accountable leader committed to organizational change through communities of practice.

Reviews

"Dr. Mullen has put together a book that reminds us of the synergy and possibilities found in collaborations dedicated to shared transformational learning. Leadership preparation centered within considerations of social justice and equity mandates such a book as this one. The collective voices in this volume are a thoughtful addition to the libraries of program developers, school leaders, and those committed to preparing them." - Autumn Tooms, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Kent State University

"The Handbook of Leadership and Professional Learning Communities expands current literature about professional learning communities. Rather than perspectives by a single author or small team of authors, this edited collection features writings by both university scholars and instructors and K-12 practitioners. Because the contributors have different foci, the resources cited in the various chapters provide readers with a broad literature base, making the book suitable for use in educator preparation programs and practitioner studies. This edited volume is an important - and unique - contribution to the field." - Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Kentucky

About the authors

CAROL A. MULLEN is a Professor in and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at The University of North Carolina in Greensboro, USA.

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