Community Development and School Reform (Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational Policy)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780762307791
Subjects: Teaching skills & techniques; Educational change; Community Development; Educational Reform; Education / Teaching; Education; Teaching Methods & Materials - General; History; Education / General; Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; Science-History; Community and school; Relations âecole-collectivitâe
First sentence: In his discussion of late nineteenth-century rural education in the midwest, historian Wayne Fuller (1982: 73) wrote: . . . the country schoolhouse on the Middle Border was no architect's dream, but it was a monument to community enterprise, or lack of it, and its appearance was one measure of the district's interest in education.