Collaboration in Education

Collaboration in Education establishes a needed framework for school/university collaborations that will be critical for others wishing to reproduce and participate in these partnerships. The contributors explore the elements necessary for sustainable collaboration in order to provide a frame of reference for others doing this work. This volume will help readers to ask the correct questions in thinking through school/university collaboration, such as: Does this collaboration make a true change in the way each parent organization operates in the future? Does it meet the needs of a more complex and changing work environment for universities and schools? Does it impact beyond the participant institutions and inform the field by producing knowledge of use to others? This volume also includes extensive analyses of ongoing school/university projects in the United States, Asia and Europe.

Judith J. Slater is Professor Emerita, Florida International University. Her books include Anatomy of a Collaboration: Study of a College of Education/Public School Partnership (1996), Acts of Alignment (2000), editor of Teen Life in Asia (2004), co-editor of The Freirean Legacy (2002), Pedagogy of Place (2004), Educating for Democracy in a Changing World: Understanding Freedom in Contemporary America (2007), and War Against the Professions: The Impact of Politics and Economics on the Idea of the University (2009).

Ruth Ravid is Professor, National-Louis University. Her books include The Many Faces of School-University Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Partnerships (2001), Practical Statistics for Educators (2005), Workbook to Accompany Practical Statistics for Educators (2005) and Practical Statistics for Business: An Introduction to Business Statistics (2008).