RE: [AAACE-NLA] "Sunday Morning Coming Down," Johnny Cash

[David Collings]

Here is an update from Andrea.
 
David C.

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From: AWilder106 at aol.com [mailto:AWilder106 at aol.com] 
Subject: [AAACE-NLA]  "Sunday Morning  Coming Down," Johnny Cash


Colleagues:

Hope I'm not pushing this too hard, but, well, I'm going to quote from a web
page for "The Rural School Principalship:  Promises and Challenges." I think
it has utility for us, too.

"Authors  Aimee Howley, Edwina Pendarvis, and Arlie Woodrum explain why and
in what ways rural locale has a bearing on the experience of school
leadership and what rurality requires of principals.  In an effort to stay
down-to-earth, the book does not concern itself primarily with theories of
leaership applicable to the administration of rural schools.  Nor is it
simply a guidebook to what some call 'best practice.'  What works in one
context is, therefore, not necessarily workable in another.  Instead, they
use the term 'responsive practice' to refer  to a responsible alternative,
namely practice-- instructional, managerial or fiscal-- that attends
sensitively and productively to relevant features of a particular rural
context."

(address for the quotation doesn't seem to work well...so just type "Arlie
Woodrum" into Google, click on "publications," and it will get you to the
page.)

The only caveat:  they do a  wonderfully careful and descriptive job (my
opinion)of the context for the rural principalship.  So don't just slap on
"context" to what you are doing that varies from some global definition of
adult literacy.  Deliberate work within a context needs finely honed
qualitative research skills and practice.

Enough already, I'm off for the day.

Andrea 
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