Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth - Softcover

Harbour, Patricia Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0923993444 ISBN 13: 9780923993443

Publisher: Kettering Foundation Press, 2012

Synopsis

Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth asserts that the relationships between education, community, and democracy are inseparable and illustrates that education is broader than just schooling. Harbour challenges current thinking about education and reveals how the public participates in the education and development of youth. This book is a call for action and responsibility―both individual and collective―to transform education beyond simply reforming schools. The author’s professional educational experiences, combined with stories from the field by and about youth and community educators, exemplify the importance of citizen collaboration among the various sectors of the community, including youth, parents, schools, businesses, and neighborhood residents. The book includes a foreword by Kettering Foundation president David Mathews.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Patricia Moore Harbour, CEO and President of the Center for Quality Education, is an author, educator, speaker, and a certified professional coach. An Associate of the Charles Kettering Foundation she conducts participatory action research about the role, responsibility and impact of citizens educating youth. She is a former Public school educator and Administrator, federal government employee and Founding Director of Healing the Heart of Diversity, a Fetzer Institute initiative. Recent publications include an article, "Communities Are a Resource; Broadening the Definition of Education [National Civic review Journal, Volume 104], and a book, Community Educators ~ A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth. Published by the Kettering Foundation. She received a doctorate of Education from Vanderbilt University. Pat serves on the advisory board for The Journey for success, a program supporting Single Moms to gain self sufficiency; She is a participant in the the Shannon Institute Leadership Program sponsored by the Wilder Foundation Minneapolis, MN.

Review:

Harbour skillfully illustrates how we find ourselves at this current impasse in public life, specifically as it relates to education. She manages to weave stories of personal experience with the systems impacted by those very stoires. Her...thought provoking questions, had me wondering if I've personally done enough in my role as a community educator. The sense of urgency that brought me to this work originally has been reignited. As she writes, I too believe that in a democracy, the public is responsible for educating its young people. --Kathy Szenda Wilson, former director of Neighborhood Programs, Battle Creek Community Foundation, and member of Grassroots Grantmakers board: Terrific book. Patricia Harbour's Community Educators is an eloquent and impassioned case for us all to remember the deepest wisdom in American education - it takes a whole community, with all its complexities, networks, cultures, and actors, to educate children. This premise, the foundation for America's democratic life, is more important than ever in the 21st century. --Harry Boyte, director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship: this book is an interesting and illuminating discussion of what should be the transformation of educational policy. --Linda Goldberg, principal, Potomac Elementary School, Potomac, MD

Terrific book. Patricia Harbour's Community Educators is an eloquent and impassioned case for us all to remember the deepest wisdom in American education - it takes a whole community, with all its complexities, networks, cultures, and actors, to educate children. This premise, the foundation for America's democratic life, is more important than ever in the 21st century. --Harry Boyte, director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship

This book is an interesting and illuminating discussion of what should be the transformation of educational policy. --Linda Goldberg, principal, Potomac Elementary School, Potomac, MD

Terrific book. Patricia Harbour's Community Educators is an eloquent and impassioned case for us all to remember the deepest wisdom in American education - it takes a whole community, with all its complexities, networks, cultures, and actors, to educate children. This premise, the foundation for America's democratic life, is more important than ever in the 21st century. --Harry Boyte, director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship

This book is an interesting and illuminating discussion of what should be the transformation of educational policy. --Linda Goldberg, principal, Potomac Elementary School, Potomac, MD

About this edition

• Publisher: Kettering Foundation Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0923993444
• ISBN 13: 9780923993443
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206