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Creating smarter schools through collaboration.
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| Author | Tschannen-Moran, Megan Uline, Cynthia Hoy, Anita Woolfolk Mackley, Timm |
| Abstract | Abstract Principles of cognitive psychology are considered, not primarily as they inform classroom practice, but as they inform school organization and administrative practice in schools. Theories of knowledge as distributed, social, situated, and based on prior beliefs and knowledge are applied to organizational learning within schools. Collaborative problem solving is explored as a means that schools might employ to become smarter. The study is situated within a Midwestern high school that is striving to improve itself. This school employs collaborative strategies to learn and adapt to changed expectations and circumstances. In the school examined, this collaboration is orchestrated through the creation of discourse communities among teachers and cognitive apprenticeships among teachers and administrators. Schools are in the learning business. Their central mission is to construct environments that facilitate the learning of essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Recent developments in cognitive science suggest new conceptions of cognition that have implications for how we structure learning environments for children and teachers. But what of schools themselves? Can schools learn? Argyris and Schon (1996) describe organizations as possessing knowledge, as |
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