Accommodating Change and Diversity: Linking Rural Schools to Communities. A Report of the Ford Western Taskforce.

Autor/inn/en	Spears, Jacqueline D.; und weitere
Institution	Kansas State Univ., Manhattan. Rural Clearinghouse for Education and Development.
Titel	Accommodating Change and Diversity: Linking Rural Schools to Communities. A Report of the Ford Western Taskforce.
Quelle	(1990), (81 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Case Studies; Economic Development; Elementary Secondary Education; Entrepreneurship; Rural Development; Rural Education; Rural Environment; Rural Schools; School Community Programs; School Community Relationship; Social Services; Nebraska; South Dakota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Unternehmungsgeist; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; South-Dakota
Abstract	Rural America has been experiencing dramatic changes and is becoming an increasingly diverse society. To explore the process by which rural schools define and work towards change, case studies were conducted on two rural schools that have established unusually strong links with their communities. Information was collected by personal interviews with school personnel, students, and community members. The two case study sites, Belle Fourche, South Dakota, and York, Nebraska, developed programs to consistently work with the community. Both communities are struggling, however, facing increased social and economic needs at a time when fiscal resources and the population are decreasing. Belle Fourche uses the entrepreneurial curriculum as a vehicle to link the school to community development efforts; York has broadened a community education effort to coordinate social services for lifelong learning among the community's adults. In relation to the case studies, the document also reviews the decade-old themes that the rural school should be involved in local development. It focuses on (1) the reciprocal benefits for educational and economic development between the school and the community; (2) involvement of rural schools in community social services; and (3) rural schools' active role in lifelong learning for community adult members. A list of resource persons, a case study framework and questions, and a 45-item bibliography are included. (ALL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC