The Process-Centered School: Sustaining a Renaissance Community

by Arthur L. Costa (Editor)

This book details the steps that need to be taken to move from a traditional school system to a true learning organization.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 1997

About the author

Arthur L. Costa is professor emeritus of education at California State University, Sacramento. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and assistant superintendent for instruction, and the direction of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Reviews

[Stuart Macalpine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been reading my way through Art Costa's works, frequently frustrated, as what I wanted access to was the dialogue that formed his ideas, the khora and womb of thought... I think this is it. It brilliantly draws together cognitive coaching, systems thinking, Jung's psychology, Senge.. all into one space. It is one of a trilogy and I'll be reading the other two.

The power of reading these texts is often the quality of the siding thinking one can do, re-evaluating and re-approaching current dilemma's and conversations. It is a great catalyst to thought. I read it with heavy confirmation-bias, but can imagine it being quite transformative for people who hadn't encountered the ideas before, whether as a teacher, educational leader, parent, citizen or just as a human who might be involved in education in some capacity.