Community Development and School Reform

The volume focuses on community development and school reform and the challenges of school administration in highly porous systems.

List of contents

List of contributors. Overview: community development and school reform (R.L. Crowson). The sense of place and the neighborhood school: implications for building social capital and for community development (M.E. Driscoll). Leadership outside the triangle: the challenges of school administration in highly porous systems (C.T. Kerchner, G. McMurran). Community based organizations, Title I schools, and youth opportunity: challenges and contradictions (R.A. Pena et al.). Economic geography of Latino Los Angeles: schooling and urban transformations at century's end (R.D. Torres, L.F. Miron). The role of education in community development: the Akron Enterprise community initiative (C.L. McGaughy). Linking community organizing and school reform: a comparative analysis (D.L. Shirley). Lessons (and questions) from workplace schools on the interdependence of family, school, and work (C. Smrekar). Civic capacity and school principals: the missing link for community development (E.B. Goldring, C. Hausman). Schools in the bowling league of the new American economy: theorising on social/economic integration in school-to-work opportunity systems (H.B. Mawhinney).

Product details

• Authors: R. L. Crowson
• Assisted by: Robert L. Crowson (Editor), Robert L. Crowson (Editor), L. Crowson Robert L. Crowson (Editor)
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2001
• EAN: 9780762307791
• ISBN: 978-0-7623-0779-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 552 g
• Series: Contemporary Perspectives in F
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology