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School as community : from promise to practice

Title
School as community : from promise to practice / edited by Gail Furman.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
Furman, Gail C., 1946-
Description
viii, pages; 24 cm.
Summary
This book addresses the question: How can school communities be created and sustained?
Series Statement
SUNY series, educational leadership
Uniform Title
SUNY series in educational leadership
Subject
  • School management and organization > United States
  • Community and school > United States
  • Community and school
  • School management and organization
  • Gemeinde
  • Schulorganisation
  • Schule
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Complexity and coherence of educational communities : an analysis of the images that reflect and influence scholarship and practice / Lynn G. Beck -- Postmodernism and community in schools : unraveling the paradox / Gail Furman -- Role of community in spiritually centered leadership for justice / Colleen A. Capper, Madeline M. Hafner, and Maureen W. Keyes -- Contradictions of school community in restructuring elementary schools : lessons from a case study / Paul Goldman and Gerald Tindal -- Tensions and struggles in moving toward a democratic school community / Ulrich C. Reitzug and Mary John O'Hair -- Learning from educators : insights into building communities of difference / Carolyn M. Shields -- Schools as communities for students / Karen Osterman -- Thinking about community from a student perspective / Carolyn M. Shields -- Children with severe disabilities in regular classrooms : risk and opportunity for creating inclusive communities / Charles A. Peck, Chrysan Gallucci, and Debbie.
  • Staub -- Microecology of social capital formation : developing community beyond the schoolhouse door / Hanne B. Mawhinney.
  • Listening to communities : an ecological perspective on education and human services / Robert G. Croninger and Barbara Finkelstein -- Toward a practice of school community / Gail Furman.
ISBN
  • 0791454150
  • 9780791454152
  • 0791454169
  • 9780791454169
LCCN
2001049907
OCLC
  • ocm48056938
  • 48056938
  • SCSB-8903922
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library