Communal deliberation: the art of learning schools
International Journal of Educational Management
ISSN: 0951-354X
Article publication date: 1 May 2005
Abstract
Purpose
To illuminate the importance of the communal deliberative process, as a form of collective thinking, in overcoming the growing complexities of schoolwork in uncertain and turbulent environments.
Design/methodology/approach
Introduces the notion of deliberation as evolved from Dewey's moral theory, the essential phases and elements of deliberative activities and the principal's role in facilitating this communal process.
Findings
Provides information on the stepping‐stones towards communal deliberation, while recognizing its major impediments.
Originality/value
In light of structural restructuring efforts that have not yielded significant effects in issues of teaching and learning, this paper offers the rhetorical process of communal deliberation as a means for developing schools that learn.
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Citation
Schechter, C. (2005), "Communal deliberation: the art of learning schools", International Journal of Educational Management, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513540510590986
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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