Classrooms as learning communities : what's in it for schools? / Chris Watkins.

1. Introduction -- 2. Classrooms, change, learning, teaching, community -- 3. Community - more than a warm glow -- 4. Classrooms as learning communities : a review of research -- Interlude : practices in classrooms -- 5. Goals in a learning community : classrooms with purpose -- 6. Tasks in a learning community : creating knowledge together -- 7. Social structure in a learning community -- 8. Resources in a learning community -- 9. Roles in a learning community -- Interlude : observing classrooms as learning communities -- 10. Schools as learning communities.

"After reading Classrooms as Learning Communities any classroom teacher will feel more able to take steps towards building a more effective classroom with the aspects of learning communities they choose."--BOOK JACKET.