School as community
Subtitle: from promise to practice
By: edited by Gail Furman.
Contributors: Furman, Gail C.
Series: SUNY series, educational leadership; SUNY series in educational leadership
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: School management and organization -- United States; Community and school -- United States
Description: This book addresses the question: How can school communities be created and sustained?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Complexity and coherence of educational communities : an analysis of the images that reflect and influence scholarship and practice -- Lynn G. Beck; title: Postmodernism and community in schools : unraveling the paradox -- Gail Furman; title: Role of community in spiritually centered leadership for justice -- Colleen A. Capper, Madeline M. Hafner, and Maureen W. Keyes; title: Contradictions of school community in restructuring elementary schools : lessons from a case study -- Paul Goldman and Gerald Tindal; title: Tensions and struggles in moving toward a democratic school community -- Ulrich C. Reitzug and Mary John O'Hair; title: Learning from educators : insights into building communities of difference -- Carolyn M. Shields; title: Schools as communities for students -- Karen Osterman; title: Thinking about community from a student perspective -- Carolyn M. Shields; title: Children with severe disabilities in regular classrooms : risk and opportunity for creating inclusive communities -- Charles A. Peck, Chrysan Gallucci, and Debbie Staub; title: Microecology of social capital formation : developing community beyond the schoolhouse door -- Hanne B. Mawhinney; title: Listening to communities : an ecological perspective on education and human services -- Robert G. Croninger and Barbara Finkelstein; title: Toward a practice of school community-- Gail Furman.