Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places (eBook)

Jack Leonard, R. Martin Reardon (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
337 Seiten
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64113-215-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume focuses on innovative schooluniversitycommunity 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 endeavors. 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 schooluniversitycommunity 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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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 endeavors. 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 "e;big education."e; 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-universitycommunity 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.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Series page 2
Innovation and Implementation in Rural Places 4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 5
Contents 6
Introduction 10
PART I: DESIGN FEATURES 20
CHAPTER 1: Developing and Sustaining School–University–Community Partnerships to Develop School Leaders in Rural Areas 22
CHAPTER 2: Germinating, Growing, and Renewing a District-University Partnership to Prepare Rural School Leaders 48
CHAPTER 3: Spanning Boundaries to Enhance School Leadership 76
CHAPTER 4: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Designing and Implementing the Teacher Residency for Rural Education 100
CHAPTER 5: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen 126
PART II: NOVEL APPROACHES 152
CHAPTER 6: Third Space Partnerships for Teacher Education in Rural Communities 154
CHAPTER 7: Design and Implementation of Needs-Based Collaborative Projects 180
CHAPTER 8: Practicing What We Teach 200
CHAPTER 9: Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports in Rural Schools via a School –University Partnership 226
PART III: PARENTAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 250
CHAPTER 10: Unsing the Researcher–Practitioner Partnership to Build Family–School Partnerships in a Rural High School 252
CHAPTER 11: Impacting Rural Communities Through School–University–Community Collaboration Partnershipd 276
CHAPTER 12: Examining Community College Targeted Expansions in a Rural Environment 300
CHAPTER 13: Rural Incubators 326
ABOUT THE EDITORS 348
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 350

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• ISBN-10: 1-64113-215-9 / 1641132159
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64113-215-2 / 9781641132152