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Article: Professional development schools and the disempowerment of teachers and professors.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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Professional development schools are vehicles for refonn. But getting them "on line" becomes the priority, Mr. Duffy points out, and the spirit of collaborative egalitarianism becomes a secondary concern. He suggests a better way.
Teacher empowerment has been a hot issue of late. It seems everyone has been talking about it.(1) As a literacy educator, I have contributed to the debate as well, arguing that Rexford Browns "literacy of thoughtfulness" cannot be achieved unless teachers are freed from the expectation that their job is to follow docilely the procedures dictated by professors or invented in the editorial offices of a basal textbook publisher.(2) The ...