Working The Planning Table: Negotiating Educationa L Program

Description:
In a time of increased scrutiny and heightened demands for accountability, community and public leaders must demonstrate more than good intentions, they must produce results. 'Results That Matter' outlines a new and effective framework, the Effective Community Governance Model, that employs a set of valuable tools of community improvement especially performance measurement and citizen engagement to empower communities to achieve the outcomes that their citizens most desire. Using the information and tools presented in this book, government, nonprofit, and civic managers and reformers will learn not only how to achieve one-time improvement of their organizations and communities but how to foster a cycle of community renewal and improvement.

Review:
'...the authors have done excellent research on the reality of the program planning.' (PsycCritiques, 09/06/2007)

Table of Contents:
Preface. Working the Planning Table: A Theory for Practice. 1. Seeing What Matters: Education as a Struggle for Knowledge and Power. 2. Practicing Educational Planning: Three Stories. 3. Negotiating Democratically for Educational and Political Outcomes. Working the Planning Table: The Theory in Practice. 4. Negotiating the Program's Needs-Assessment. 5. Negotiating the Program's Educational, Management, and Political Objectives. 6. Negotiating the Program's Instructional Design and Implementation. 7. Negotiating the Program's Administrative Organization and Operation. 8. Negotiating the Program's Formal and Informal Evaluation. 9. Working the Planning Table in the Struggle for Knowledge and Power. References. The Authors. Index.

Author Biography:
Ronald M. Cervero is professor of adult education and head of the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia. He is coauthor of Planning Responsibly for Adult Education, coeditor of Power In Practice (both with Arthur L. Wilson), and coeditor of Global Issues and Adult Education (with Sharan B. Merriam and Bradley C. Courtenay) all from Jossey-Bass, and author of numerous articles on the politics of adult education, program planning, and continuing education for the professions. Arthur L. Wilson is professor of adult education and Program Leader of Adult and Extension Education in the Department of Education at Cornell University. He is coauthor of Planning Responsibly for Adult Education, coeditor of Power in Practice (both with Ronald M. Cervero), coeditor of the Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education (with Elisabeth R. Hayes), and author of numerous articles on the politics of adult education, program planning, and historical and philosophical foundations of adult education.