University Partnerships for Community and School System Development (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, 5)

Barbara Cozza; Patrick Blessinger

ISBN 10: 1785601334 / ISBN 13: 9781785601330

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015

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In English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: University Partnerships for Community and School System Development (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, 5)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785601334
• ISBN 13: 9781785601330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also university-school (basic education) collaborative partnerships to improve local school systems. The increasing pressures to remove access and participation barriers, and to mitigate practices that restrict the free flow of education across borders, have created a growing global space for educational services of all types. As a result, traditional institutional boundaries have expanded to better respond to the increasing pressures placed on them by the growing demand for higher education services. The boundaries between educational institutions and other entities such as government, business, and non-profit organizations have become more fluid which has resulted in increased involvement by institutions, faculty, and students in activities outside the traditional boundaries of the classroom. This edited volume will specifically explore university partnerships for community and school system development.

Review

Education researchers and practitioners describe university school community partnerships around the world that are designed to reform teaching and learning experiences for all participants. They use case studies and other empirical research to present a broad and an in-depth overview of the variety of partnerships that can help educators transform organizations using innovative approaches to improve community and school system development. Among the topics are university-school partnership in the framework of informal education, extending school communities through university-school partnerships, enhancing global competencies through international partnerships in elementary schools, and hunting dragons: an organic multidisciplinary pedagogy. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2016 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)