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Small schools and strong communities: a third way of school reform
2010, Teachers College, Columbia University
in English
0807750581 9780807750582
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Table of Contents
Introduction: community, small schools, and school reform
Authentic learning and community
School reform: old paradigms in older bottles?
Community and small schools: a way forward?
Education and community
Learning, belonging, and school reform:
Why community is necessary and why community is hard
Why community is necessary
Why community is hard
Community and the communitarian critique of liberalism
The "bads" of community
Schools that are communities and schools that are not
Schools as communities
Community and normation
Community and shared educational projects
The four c's of community
The structural conditions of community
Community of practice and intellectual community
Community and the core goals of education
The idea of a practice and the transformative capacity of practices
Creating communities of practice
Democratic community: creating a polity
If we want democratic schools what do we want?
The governance of democratic school communities
Democratic communities and common goods
Equal opportunity and democratic inclusion
Democracy, choice, and the common school
Conclusion: democratic schools and a social contract
Small schools, community and school reform
Small schools: size or community?
Research on small schools
What is a small school?
Small schools, personalization and community
Policies for small schools: scaling up, keeping on
Scaling up
Keeping on: policies for thriving school communities
Summary
Community and small schools:
A new paradigm for school reform
The idea of a paradigm
Paradigms for reform: standards and choice
Motivation, governance and more
Community and accountability
The common view of accountability: why it is dysfunctional
Accountability for community
If wishes were fishes:
Conclusions, doubts, and the big picture
A few conclusions
Silver bullets and the big picture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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