The Development of Community Schools in Romania: Putting Policy into Practice

Autor/in	Kovacs, Maria
Titel	The Development of Community Schools in Romania: Putting Policy into Practice
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 95 (2020) 1, S.33-45 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2019.1702421
Schlagwörter	Community Schools; Educational Practices; Educational Policy; Nongovernmental Organizations; Educational Change; Case Studies; Intervention; Instructional Leadership; Parent Participation; Compliance (Legal); Parent Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; Standards; Self Evaluation (Groups); Foreign Countries; Community Involvement; Networks; Participative Decision Making; Rural Areas; Teacher Attitudes; Romania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community school; ; Gemeindeschule; Gemeinschaftsschule; Bildungspraxis; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Elternmitwirkung; Elternverhalten; Standard; Self evaluation; Group; Groups; Selbstevaluation; Gruppe (Soz); Ausland; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Lehrerverhalten; Rumänien
Abstract	If judged against prevailing understandings of community schools (CSs) in the scholarly literature, all Romanian schools should qualify as CSs in light of the regulatory framework. However, few Romanian schools are genuinely CSs. This article describes a recent NGO-led initiative to assist Romanian schools in becoming CSs and explores the nature of this transformation and its outcomes through a case study using a range of primary data, including the school's project reports about activities undertaken, direct observation, and in-depth interview material with relevant stakeholders at the end of the project. After describing the sequence of interventions undertaken as part of the NGO-led project, the article moves on to explore the ways in which school leadership, involved parents, and other local actors reflected on the nature and implications of the school's transformation into a CS in light of the defining characteristics of a CS, beyond superficial compliance with national legal requirements. The article suggests that, in addition to the collaborative process of continuous improvement based on systematic self-assessment using collectively negotiated standards, continued community-wide involvement, and the use of the school as a community resource and venue, one of the politically most relevant aspects of the analyzed school's transformation has been the school's willingness to showcase its approach to policy makers. This is particularly important and welcome in a context in which policy making has been known to be centralized; ad hoc; and, often, detached from schools' resources, needs, and capacities. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01