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Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places - School-University-Community Collaboration in Education (Hardcover)
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Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places - School-University-Community Collaboration in Education (Hardcover)
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This volume focuses on innovative school-university-community
collaborations that are being implemented in rural places in the
United States. A foundational belief that underpins the
contributions to this volume is that rural communities contain
within themselves the resources to promote and sustain vibrant
educational endeavours. This belief has inspired a wealth of
innovations that collectively offer a countervailing perspective to
the view that global competitiveness is the preeminent goal of
education, and that this goal is best served by "big education."
Since early last century, there has been a pervasive implicit, and
sometimes explicit, assumption that rural places are bereft of the
ability to educate children effectively. As repeatedly witnessed in
this volume, in collaboration with universities, schools in rural
places and the communities that both sustain and rely on them can
appropriately configure the educational environment to optimally
nurture the intellectual growth of children. The chapters in this
volume are grouped into three parts that explore, in turn, the
design features of innovative school-university-community
collaborations, some novel approaches to such collaborations, and
the contours of parental and community involvement in such
collaborations. Chapters discuss both larger scale collaborations
that involve many school districts across wide-spread regions, and
smaller scale collaborations that involve intensive engagements
among the educators and members of smaller communities, and offer
theoretical insights into the collaborative process itself. As
mentioned above, two narrative threads run through the chapters:
that effective collaborations address goals and aspirations
expressed by those who are privileged to live in rural America, and
that effective collaborations are oriented to building on the
strengths inherent in the social fabric of those rural communities.
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