scholarly journals A Collaborative Community Education Model: Developing Effective School-Community Partnerships

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Thea DePetris ◽  
Chris Eames
Keyword(s):  
Community Education ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
School Community ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Conservation Education ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Education Model

AbstractDespite school-community partnerships having much potential to provide educational organisations with authentic teaching and learning opportunities through community-based action projects, they remain under-utilised largely due to the structural constraints and pressures faced by teachers. This study helps fill a gap in scholarly discourse about the specific ways in which school-community partnerships can effectively be developed by providing an in-depth account of an 18-month pilot project with the aim to develop a conservation education program (Kids Greening Taupō) through a partnership structure in Aotearoa New Zealand. An evaluation of the pilot project was conducted using an ethnographic approach, which sought stakeholder perspectives about the program's developmental process through an interpretive lens. Qualitative data were collected through participant observation, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, and then thematically analysed. The findings provided in this article illuminate stakeholder insights and perspectives about the structures established and processes utilised over the three broad stages of program planning, implementation and maintenance, and the resultant environmental initiatives and programs. Through this study, a Collaborative Community Education Model has emerged that may serve as a potential framework or starting point for those interested in creating a new school-community partnership or to modify an existing one.

PENDIDIKAN BERMASYARAKAT MODEL NABI MUHAMMAD SEBAGAI SOLUSI ALTERNATIF KEHIDUPAN BERMASYARAKAT DI INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
Gunawan Efendi
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Curriculum Materials ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Education Model ◽  
Alternative Solutions

The model of community education in the form of the prophet Muhammad is community education modeled on the ways of education carried out by the prophet Muhammad SAW. Among the models of the prophet Muhammad SAW education. namely the development of Islamic education, curriculum, materials, methods, institutions, guidance during the time of the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Alternative solutions for social life in Indonesia include Indonesian education that must be designed in such a way as to enable students to develop their potential naturally and creatively in an atmosphere of freedom, togetherness, and responsibility. In addition, education must produce graduates who can understand their community with all the factors that can support success or obstacles that cause failure in social life. One alternative that can be done is to develop an education model of the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

Creating functional and sustainable School–Community Partnerships: Lessons from three South African cases

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1001-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phumlani Erasmus Myende
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
South African ◽  
School Community ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Participative Leadership ◽  
Reflective Journal ◽  
Spheres Of Influence ◽  
Group A ◽  
Overlapping Spheres

Globally, there is agreement that school–community partnerships are one of the mechanisms to address challenges that schools cannot address alone. However, evidence suggests that where school–community partnerships have been initiated, their functionality and continuity is not always easy to achieve, and research locally and internationally has not sufficiently addressed this concern. To bridge this gap, guided by Epstein’s theory of overlapping spheres of influence, this paper examined what makes school–community partnerships functional and sustainable. The research used a qualitative case study and employed discursive oriented interviews (both individual and focus group), a researcher’s reflective journal, and document reviews to generate the data. Participants were principals, teachers, and academics from two universities. It was found that for partnerships to be functional and sustainable there is a need to ensure that there is collaborative planning and decision-making, effective two-way communication, eagerness to address power issues, and the creation of a culture that promotes participative leadership. From these findings, the paper concludes that principal’s leadership is only critical at the beginning stage of partnerships, and teacher leadership is central in the functionality and continuity of partnerships. In relation to the theoretical framework, it is further concluded that power is an important element to consider, which either brings partners together or pushes them apart.

TOURIST DESTINATION QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CASE STUDY - PULA)

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Vinka Cetinski ◽  
Violeta Šugar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
City Region ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
On Line ◽  
Public And Private Sector

The contemporary tourist product includes attractions, created by nature as well as humans. Attractions represent a part o f some specific destination, place, city, region, even continent. Destination is to be viewed as a whole, which requires the quality management of both its development and the foundation of attraction resource. Quality management of a tourist destination is based on a synergy, meaning cooperation of all stakeholders in public and private sector. Without attractions there is no tourism, no tourist destination. Without quality management, precisely quality development management, a tourist destination would be left to a random, chaotic construction, the maximum usage o f resources, in short, to the threat o f loosing any attractiveness in the future. The quality management system of Pula as a tourist destination, suggested in this paper, should be established on the quality databases, available to the users connected through a network, all the stakeholders in both private and public sector. On-line users would constitute a Destination Management Network (DMN), i.e. a competitive diamond of Pula, a pilot-project whose success could become a parameter, a standard for other similar destinations. On-line information, from those statistical to the ones attached to tourist supply, products and attractions o f the destination, would refer to the Pula know-how. Knowledge, information and human capital are the starting point of the quality management and the competitive diamond framework of the Pula Destination Management Network.

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