Effective Schooling for the Community

Effective Schooling for the Community
Author: Tony Townsend
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134848781
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This book offers a new perspective on the management of schools by bringing together the knowledge and understanding of school effectiveness and community education. Tony Townsend argues that the core activity of the school, to provide a learning environment for children, should be supplemented by educational activities that service the needs of the community as a whole. He offers a model for the development of the `core-plus' school, including practical ideas for school leaders to build strategies for improving school programme possiblities and processes to encourage greater community involvement.

School Improvement

School Improvement
Author: Zijian Li
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781594549441
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School improvement is at the centre of educational reform and is perceived by many as a key to social and economic advance. It contributes to determining the personal fulfilment and career paths of individual students and consequently engages the interest of parents and community members. It is an ever-present commitment of teachers and managers in schools. Policy makers and politicians at international, national and local levels devote much time and effort to their search for better schools. School improvement has also attracted the attention of researchers and scholars in many countries. They have been drawn from various disciplines and fields within the educational studies community, including psychology, sociology, history, evaluation, and studies in curriculum and assessment. There is now an established body of findings from studies conducted in many contexts. This book brings together leading experts drawn from many countries and several continents, reflecting diverse approaches to educational policy and practice, evaluation and research. Variations between countries and between local communities within countries are highlighted. The possibilities and difficulties inherent in transferring evidence from one educational system, at a number of levels, to another are clearly discussed. What emerges from the cross-national and cross-cultural evidence are several significant threads, currently under active investigation, including: school structure and management, classroom organisation, school leadership, teacher training and staff development, curriculum and assessment, community involvement, lifelong learning and special provision for students with special educational needs. "School Improvement: International Perspectives" is written for national educational policy makers, teachers and student teachers, governing bodies and parents from various levels of schooling, and university researchers and scholars.

School-Based Management Committee Strategies, Community Participation and Effectiveness of Basic Schools in North-West Zone, Nigeria

School-Based Management Committee Strategies, Community Participation and Effectiveness of Basic Schools in North-West Zone, Nigeria
Author: Bala Bakwai Kwashabawa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN:
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School effectiveness is a challenge to stakeholders in education. Although several studies have examined this issue, adequate attention has not been paid to School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) strategies (advocacy, resource mobilization, resource control, communication and instruction monitoring) and community participation as predictors of school effectiveness. The objectives of the study were to determine: (i) the effectiveness of the SBMC strategies; (ii) the level of community participation; (iii) the level of basic school effectiveness; (iv) the challenges affecting SBMC; (v) the factors inhibiting community participation; (vi) the relationship between SBMC strategies and basic school effectiveness; (vii) the relationship between community participation and basic school effectiveness; and (iii) the relationship among SBMC strategies, community participation and basic school effectiveness.The study used a descriptive research design of correlation type with a population of 21,230 basic schools and their SBMCs. A sample of 370 basic schools was selected from four states using random, stratified and systematic sampling procedures. Validated School-Based Management Committee Strategies Questionnaire (SBMCSQ), Community Participation Questionnaire (CPQ), Impact of School-Based Management Committee Questionnaire (ISBMCQ), and Students' Conduct Observation Inventory (SCOI) with reliability indices of 0.81, 0.79, 0.84, and 0.74 respectively, were used to collect data. Percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the demographic data and answer the research questions, while correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to test the research hypotheses. The findings of the study were: (i) the use of SBMC strategies was highly effective (mean score = 92.64); (ii) the level of community participation was high (mean score = 4.33); (iii) the level of basic school effectiveness was moderate (mean score of 42.86); (iv) the challenges affecting SBMC included the refusal of the members to attend meetings, lack of proper communication and lack of members' commitment; (v) the factors inhibiting community participation as perceived by the respondents included lack of interest, ignorance, community attitude to education, and dependence on government;(vi) there was a significant relationship between SBMC strategies and basic school effectiveness (r=0.036, p

Parent and Community Involvement in Education

Parent and Community Involvement in Education
Author: Barry Rutherford
Publisher: Department of Education Office of Educational
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:
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This study focused on parent, family, and community involvement in middle-grade education. It addressed three reform themes in the area of middle-grade school/family and community partnerships: (1) What are the larger and local environments within which parent, family, and community involvement operate? How do these contextual factors influence those programs? (2) What are the roles that parents, families, and community and business members assume in the education of their children? How are those roles facilitated? What key elements are specific to these areas? and (3) What are the effects of promising programs on parents, students, schools, and the community? How are these effects assessed or determined? Findings show that challenges can create opportunities for family involvement; strong relationships form the core of family and community involvement; responsibilities and decision making need to be shared among all participants; sustained family and community involvement depends on active advocacy by leaders; and active partnerships require a system of support to sustain them. Implications for policymakers include a focus on success for all students as the core of policy for education reform, whereby school, family, and community partnerships are supported. Appendix A contains references, and Appendix B contains a bibliography of current products. (RT)

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Author: Joyce L. Epstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483320014
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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Education and Democratic Theory

Education and Democratic Theory
Author: A. Belden Fields
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2001-04-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0791490424
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Winner of the 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award Much has been made of the gap between public schools and the communities that they serve. This book shows how a group of teachers, parents, and community people in "Ed City" formed an educational reform group—the Project for Educational Democracy—to increase access to decision making in their school system, especially for members of the community who had previously been excluded. A combination of ethnographic research and theoretical reflection, this book addresses concepts of community, authority, representation, participation, and democracy.