Antecedents of Schools as Community Hubs: The Lasting Influence of John Dewey's Philosophy -Panel3.2
Channel: LEaRNetwork University of Melbourne
Date: 2020-12-14

This presentation is part of the Schools as Community Hubs International Conference 2020, a multidisciplinary event held online on 3 and 4 December 2020. It explored the development of schools as community hubs with an emphasis on the role of the built environment (social infrastructure) in supporting such activity. The event was facilitated by the Building Connections: Schools as Community Hubs research team based at The University of Melbourne, Australia.
More information on the Building Connections ARC Linkage Project http://go.unimelb.edu.au/4ckr / building-connections@unimelb.edu.au / Twitter @BC_ARCProject.

FULL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
Minerva: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/251939
ISBN: 978 0 7340 5616 0
Date: November 2020

CITE THIS VIDEO AND READ RELATED PAPER: 
Hron, Cynthia (2020): Antecedents of Schools as Community Hubs: The Lasting Influence of John Dewey's Philosophy. University of Melbourne. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26188/13308518
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ABSTRACT:
This paper surveys both contemporary and historic interpretations of community schools with respect to philosopher John Dewey’s web of life concept, where life and pedagogical practice were viewed in terms of their interrelations. As Founder of The Laboratory School, completed in 1903 on the University of Chicago campus, he proposed distinctive facilities in keeping with his educational vision. Chicago Public School’s Community School Initiative, became the largest community schools’ system in the United States. Nettelhorst School is presented to illustrate the district’s mission. A circumscribed historical timeline provides context. The paper closes by assessing associations between curriculum, society, and the built environment, appraising a contemporary community school system in terms of Dewey’s ideas proposed more than a century ago.