Author: Don DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Patterns of Citizen Participation in Educational Decisionmaking: Grassroots perspectives : diverse forms of participation
Author: Don DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: For Every School a Community
Author: Robert L. SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Presented are ideas for promoting learning both within and beyond the walls of the schools. The first essay, "The Meaning of Commmunity Education: An Historical Perspective" by Ralph W. Tyler, examines community education in primitive societies, in the colonial period, and in 19th and 20th century America. The challenge of the present is also discussed. The second essay, "Expanding Environments for Learning: The Making and Breaking of Learning Boundaries" by Robert L. Sinclair and Ward J. Ghory, discusses schools as a necessary part of a large network of learning environments that are important for effective education. The family, media, and the workplace must also share responsibility for education. The third essay is "Developing Parent Commitment to Public Education: New Directions for the 1980's," by Sharon Lynn Kagan and Carol Schraft. Historical perspectives and demographic trends, including fertility, mobility, divorce, remarriage, and working women, are examined. The fourth essay, "From School System to Educative System: Linking the School with Community Environments" by Mario D. Fantini, discusses parental, school, and community responsibilities for educational environments. The book concludes with the essay "Planning to Make Collaboration a Reality," by Don Davies. Bibliographies of related documents are included. (RM)
The Home-school Connection
Author: Carter H. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Unusual because they involve students above the primary level, the programs described in this report are designed to involve parents more fully in the education of their children. Presented are 28 programs in grades 4-12 initiated by school systems in large cities and operating during the 1980-81 school year. Information about the programs was gathered through telephone conversations and through visits to seven programs. School systems were asked to provide information on programs that might help parents act in educational capacities, such as home tutors, monitors of homework and attendance, or guides for their children in the use of community educational resources. A general discussion section highlights salient features from all programs, promising practices, components of a comprehensive program, and strategies for program development. The 28 program profiles include program objectives, major activities, staffing, target populations, funding, evaluations, materials available, and the name of a contact person. The seven in-depth reports resulting from site visits cover each program's objectives, rationale, development, operation, cost and personnel information, supporting and inhibiting factors, evidence of success, and other areas. A table classifying the main characteristics of each program assists readers in locating programs of interest. (Author/JM)
Resources in Education
Author: Books in Print Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
Book Description
Books Out-of-print
Author: Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1514
Book Description
Associations' Publications in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
1981- in 2 v.: v.1, Subject index; v.2, Title index, Publisher/title index, Association name index, Acronym index, Key to publishers' and distributors' abbreviations.
Democracy in Practice
Author: Thomas C. BeierlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136528083
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In spite of the expanding role of public participation in environmental decisionmaking, there has been little systematic examination of whether it has, to date, contributed toward better environmental management. Neither have there been extensive empirical studies to examine how participation processes can be made more effective. Democracy in Practice brings together, for the first time, the collected experience of 30 years of public involvement in environmental decisionmaking. Using data from 239 cases, the authors evaluate the success of public participation and the contextual and procedural factors that lead to it. Thomas Beierle and Jerry Cayford demonstrate that public participation has not only improved environmental policy, but it has also played an important educational role and has helped resolve the conflict and mistrust that often plague environmental issues. Among the authors' findings are that intensive 'problem-solving' processes are most effective for achieving a broad set of social goals, and participant motivation and agency responsiveness are key factors for success. Democracy in Practice will be useful for a broad range of interests. For researchers, it assembles the most comprehensive data set on the practice of public participation, and presents a systematic typology and evaluation framework. For policymakers, political leaders, and citizens, it provides concrete advice about what to expect from public participation, and how it can be made more effective. Democracy in Practice concludes with a systematic guide for use by government agencies in their efforts to design successful public participation efforts.