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"Many
schools are like little islands set apart from the mainland of life".
Community Education, in contrast, is a philosophy (not a program)
in which the school serves the entire community by providing for
the educational needs of all its community members. In Community
Education the local school serves as a catalyst for bringing community
resources to bear on community problems. Community Education and
Neighborhood Planning are virtually the same approach, viewed from
a different perspective. The Texas IAF organization found that social
capital is built through Community Education, but that it forms
not within the boundaries of the schools but in the neighborhoods.
Readings:
Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar, Streets of Hope, The Fall and
Rise of an Urban Neighborhood (Boston: South End Press, 1994),
Chapter 8, "The Power of Youth", pp. 203-244
Reading
#1
Jack
D. Minzey and Clyde E. LeTarte, Reforming Public Schools Through
Community Education (Fairfax: National Community Education
Association, 1994), "Community Education: From Program to Process",
"Objectives of Community Education", pp. 52-69.
Reading
#5 (pdf)
Larry
Kilbourne, Larry E. Decker, and Valerie A. Romney, Rebuilding
the Partnership for Public Education, (Charlottesville:
Mid-Atlantic Center for Community Education, 1994), Chapter IV,
"Bridging the Gap", pp. 79-91.
Reading
#6 (pdf)
Steve
Parson, Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers
(Larchmont, Eye on Education, 1999), Chapter 2, "Community
Learning Centers", pp. 13-26.
Reading
#7 (pdf)
Pedro
Noguera, "Transforming Urban Schools Through Investments in
the Social Capital of Parents", in Susan Saegert, J. Phillip
Thompson, and Mark R. Warren, Social Capital and Poor Communities
(New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001), pp. 189-212.
Reading
#9 (pdf)
Joyce
Epstein, School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing
Educators and Improving Schools (Boulder: Westview Press,
2001), "School, Family, and Community Partnerships - Caring
for the Children We Share" pp. 403-426.
Reading
#17 (pdf)
James
Comer, et. al., Rallying the Whole Village: The Comer Process
for Reforming Education (New York: Teachers College Press,
1996), Chapter 3, "It Takes a Whole Village: The SDP School",
pp. 42-71.
Reading
#19 (pdf)
Chapter
3, "Capturing Local Institutions for Community Building",
"Schools" in John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, Building
Communities from the Inside Out, A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing
A.
Reading
#23
Ch.
30, Catherine Briar Lawson, et. al., "School-Linked Comprehensive
Services: Promising Beginnings, Lessons Learned, and Future Challenges"
in Patricia Ewalt, Edith Freeman, and Dennis Poole, eds. Community
Building: Renewal, Well-Being, and Shared Responsibility (Washington,
D.C.: National Association of Social Works Press, 1998), pp. 343-354.
Reading
#24 (pdf)
Dennis
Shirley, Community Organizing for Urban School Reform
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), Chapter 10, "The
Pursuit of Success", pp. 241-264.
Reading
#41 (pdf)
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Education, Organizing and School Reform
Subtopics inside:
Back to Dudley Street Theory
Community based education
Social capital and education
Evaluating schools and programs
Parent participation
Leadership: principals and teachers
School-Family-Community Partnerships
Assets-based approaches to education
School based human services consortiums - including public safety
Pre-school programs
After-school programs
Service learning
Mentoring and multi-generational partnerships
Health care centers in schools
Charter schools
Community organizing and educational reform
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