Developing community schools, community learning centers, extended-service schools and multi-service schools : international exemplars for practice, policy and research /: international exemplars for practice, policy and research. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hal A. Lawson, Dolf van Veen, editors.
• Editors: Lawson, Hal A, 1944-; Veen, Dolf van
• Contents: An Overview of the Book; Acknowledgments; Contents; Author Information; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Four Other Reasons for New School Designs; Beyond One Size Fits All Schools; Place-based Challenges for Conventional Schools; Toward New School Designs; Taking Stock of the Questions That Drive New Designs; A Boundary-Changing Design for Schools and Their Partner Organizations; Four Properties of New School Designs; Invention; Intentionality; Causality; Contrast. The International Context: A Summary View of the Research on School and Community Relationships in Challenging PlacesThe Social Geography for the New School Design; The Defining Features of This New School-Related Design; Delimitations: Contrasting Designs; From Designs on the Drawing Board to Improved Policy and Practice with a Sense of Urgency; References; Part I: Introduction to Part I; Chapter 2: A Shared Rationale for New School Designs with Place-Based Differences; Getting Started: A School Improvement Configuration or a New Kind of Institution?; A School-Related Definition. The Children's Aid Society DefinitionA Community Learning Center Definition; A Definition Featuring Design Principles; The Community School Strategy; Beyond the Names and Definitions to a Shared Rationale; Growing International Convergence; Blaming Educators Instead of Examining Schooling and Place-Based Challenges; Eight Commonalties in the Rationale for New School Designs; Diverse People on the Move; Addressing Concentrated Disadvantage with Strengths-Based Language; A Terrible Trilogy of Poverty, Social Exclusion, and Social Isolation; A Fierce Competition for Young People's Time. A Social Responsibility Founded on a Moral Imperative The Limitations of an Inherited School Improvement Model; Developing New School Designs in Different Policy Environments; A Planning Triad with Three Evaluative Criteria; References; Chapter 3: A Framework for Planning and Evaluating the New Design; A Multi-component Model with Unavoidable and Manageable Complexity; Introducing the Defining Features of This New School-Related Design; Academic Learning/Achievement as the Most Important Outcome; Developing Connections, Building Bridges, and Managing Complexity. Boundary Crossing Leaders and Coordinators An Important Combination of School-Based and School-Linked Programs and Services; A School-Centered Approach to Addressing Student Barriers; Innovative Strategies for Engaging Parents and Providing Family Support; Positive Youth Development; Comprehensive, Revealing, and Intervention-Useful Data Systems; Universities as Partners, Facilitators, Constraints, and Impediments; From a Core Technology to Core Technologies; Connecting the Components: A Holistic Design with Manageable Complexity; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham [Germany] : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 371.6; School facilities -- Planning; Schools -- Design and construction; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; School facilities -- Planning; Schools -- Design and construction; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319256641; 3319256645; 3319256629; 9783319256627
• Related ISBNs: 9783319256627
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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