Small schools and strong communities
Subtitle: a third way of school reform
By: Kenneth A. Strike ; foreword by Mary Anne Raywid.
Publisher: Teachers College, Columbia University
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807750582; 9780807750599
Subjects: School size; Educational change; School improvement programs
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:; title: 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 c's of community; title: The structural conditions 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: Conclusion: 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; title: Keeping on: policies for thriving school communities; title: Summary; title: Community and small schools:; title: A new paradigm for school reform; title: The idea of a paradigm; title: Paradigms for reform: standards and choice; title: Motivation, governance and more; title: Community and accountability; title: The common view of accountability: why it is dysfunctional; title: Accountability for community; title: If wishes were fishes:; title: Conclusions, doubts, and the big picture; title: A few conclusions; title: Silver bullets and the big picture.