How Communities Build Stronger Schools Stories, Strategies, and Promising Practices for Educating Every Child

If it takes a village to raise a child, Anne Wescott Dodd and Jean L. Konzal feel that it takes a community to make a school. Not content with the idea of a school being contained within four walls and existing only for a few hours every day, Dodd and Konzal know that a school which looks after the...

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Main Authors: Dodd, Anne Wescott, Konzal, Jean L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2002, 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:If it takes a village to raise a child, Anne Wescott Dodd and Jean L. Konzal feel that it takes a community to make a school. Not content with the idea of a school being contained within four walls and existing only for a few hours every day, Dodd and Konzal know that a school which looks after the complete child exists far beyond its four walls and for the whole 24 hours in each day. They present a radical democratic vision of the public school where everyone not just students, teachers and parents plays a part in shaping our children and, consequently, our future
Physical Description:368 p online resource
ISBN:9780230602144