| Description |
1 online resource (156 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the Editors and Contributors; Introduction and overview; Professionalism or politics as a model for educators' engagement with/in communities; Dreams of community; Theories of politics and the legitimacy of public schools in a democratic state; The microecology of school; community links; Schools and their community: tensions and tradeoffs; Schools' understanding of changing communities; Fundamentalists, social capital, and children's welfare: a place for religion in public education?; School privatization: friendly or hostile takeover? |
| Summary |
A collection of papers which form the 1996 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association, and explore the confusions and demands of the pact between families, communities and schools. The authors look at the school's obligations as a social institution, and reveal the counter-cultural nature of schooling in various international settings |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Community and school.
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Education -- Political aspects.
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Community and school
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Education -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark Lindle, Jane
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| ISBN |
9780203209233 |
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0203209230 |
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