Screen LibraryCommunity action for school reform
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State University of New York Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Albany |
| Publication Dates: | c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 297 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0791457591 (alk. paper) 9780791457597 (alk. paper) 0791457605 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780791457603 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | G571 |
| CLC: | G571.27 |
| Call Number: | G571.27/B347 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index. 1: Introduction -- School reform and educational improvement: challenges and responses -- Attachment and knowledge -- Building the education field: getting parents, schools, and communities together -- Baltimore, the schools, and the southeast education task force -- 2: Research as a way of getting started -- Getting started, getting bearings -- 3: Participation -- Creating the southeast education task force -- Organizing networks for southeast education: engaging the school system -- Organizing networks for southeast education: connecting with parents and community institutions -- 4: Action -- Doing something -- Education and the empowerment zone: participation in the service of action -- 5: Research as a means to action -- Acting as a way of knowing: action research -- Knowing as a means to acting: research for action -- 6: Money -- Money matters: the costs of participation, research, and action -- 7: Tensions between attachment and knowledge -- Realities and fantasies in university--community partnerships -- Why community-school partnerships are unlikely -- Building networks in turbulent fields: tension between attachment and knowledge -- 8: Lessons and conclusions -- Evaluating the southeast education task force -- Can community action reform schools or improve education? |