Small schools and strong communities
Subtitle: a third way of school reform
By: Kenneth A. Strike ; foreword by Mary Anne Raywid
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780807750582; 9780807750599
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: community, small schools, and school reform; title: Authentic learning and community; title: School reform: old paradigms in older bottles?; title: Community and small schools: a way forward?; title: Education and community; title: Learning, belonging, and school reform: why community is necessary and why community is hard; title: Why community is necessary; title: Why community is hard; title: Community and the communitarian critique of liberalism; title: The "bads" of community; title: Schools that are communities and schools that are not; title: Schools as communities; title: Community and normation; title: Community and shared educational projects; title: The four Cs of community; title: Community of practice and intellectual community; title: Community and the core goals of education; title: The idea of a practice and the transformative capacity of practices; title: Creating communities of practice; title: Democratic community: creating a polity; title: If we want democratic schools, what do we want?; title: The governance of democratic school communities; title: Democratic communities and common goods; title: Equal opportunity and democratic inclusion; title: Democracy, choice, and the common school; title: Democratic schools and a social contract; title: Small schools, community, and school reform; title: Small schools: size or community?; title: Research on small schools; title: What is a small school?; title: Small schools, personalization, and community; title: Policies for small schools: scaling up, keeping on; title: Scaling up: principles for creating successful small schools; title: Keeping on: policies for thriving school communities; title: Community and small schools: a new paradigm for school reform; title: The idea of a paradigm; title: Two paradigms for reform: standards and choice; title: Motivation and more; title: A third way of school reform; title: Community and accountability; title: The common view of accountability: why it is dysfunctional; title: Accountability for community; title: If wishes were fishes: conclusions, doubts, and the big picture; title: A few conclusions and some doubts; title: Silver bullets and the big picture.