Holding Sacred Ground: Essays on Leadership, Courage, and Endurance in our Schools

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Holding Sacred Ground: Essays on Leadership, Courage, and Endurance in our Schools

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Title: Holding Sacred Ground: Essays on Leadership, Courage, and Endurance in our Schools
Author(s): Carl D. Glickman
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco
ISBN: 0787956716, Pages: 362, Year: 2003
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Carl Glickman�s work has informed educational research in substantial ways for more than a quarter of a century.� In Holding Sacred Ground: Essays on Leadership, Courage, and Endurance in Our Schools, Glickman presents a collection of recent essays that respond to the question, �What must school leaders think about and practice if all students are to have a truly democratic education; an education that equips each student with the knowledge, skills, and applications to become a wise, caring, and participatory citizen of an improving democratic society?� (p. xvii).� He describes research findings and personal beliefs about the roles and responsibilities of school leaders, democratic educational opportunities for students, and progressive teaching/learning formats in which students can develop personal responsibility and compassion as citizens of a democracy.� The essays support a much needed human caring perspective in the current sterile climate of high stakes testing and prescribed curriculum. � The collection is organized into six parts, each addressing an essential aspect of the question.� In Part One, �Great Schools,� Glickman situates... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 106 Number 8, 2004, p. 1516-1519
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11269, Date Accessed: 4/22/2021 9:33:33 AM

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LaVern Burmeister California State University, San Bernardino E-mail Author LaVERN BURMEISTER, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor in the Educational Administration Program; Coordinator of the Professional Administrative Services Credential Program; lead faculty member for the Educational Leadership course; California State University, San Bernardino. Research interests include educational leadership, preparation of school administrators, and the impact of relationships on quality education. Current projects include a yearlong qualitative study of student/student and teacher/student relationships in a 7th grade literacy class and the impact of the relationships on student learning.

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