The Responsive Classroom Approach: A Caring, Respectful School Environment as a Context for Development.

Autor: Horsch, Patricia, Chen, Jie-Qi, Wagner, Suzanne L.
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Zdroj: Education & Urban Society; May2002, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p365, 19p
Abstrakt: Most classrooms have students with behavioral problems, but such students tend to be more prevalent in low-income urban neighborhoods, and teachers in these schools often do not have adequate training or resources to address the children's social-emotional needs. During the Schools Project—a partnership between the Erikson Institute and nine public schools in low-income Chicago neighborhoods—some of the partner schools addressed this dilemma by implementing the Responsive Classroom approach, created by the Northeast Foundation for Children to support students' social-emotional development. No other intervention during the project ended up looking so different from school to school. At one extreme, an entire school community was transformed. At the other extreme, a school came to see the approach as an ivory-tower program unsuited for inner-city children. This article briefly describes the Responsive Classroom approach and conveys the range of implementation experiences in the Schools Project through four case histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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