By Gail C. Furman
An more and more very important and beautiful thought for faculty renewal is that of college as group. whereas group holds a number of gives you for colleges, little is understood in regards to the perform of group in faculties. This assortment furthers our figuring out concerning the nature of faculty neighborhood, its perform in public faculties, and the function of management during this perform. Of specific significance is the query of ways group could be created and sustained in K-12 public colleges with hugely diversified populations.
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Bryk and Driscoll (1988), for instance, write that “a communal school” is distinguished by “strong affective ties” (p. 5). Meier (1987) notes that the community she and others experienced in Central Park East Elementary School felt “psychologically” (p. 34) safe for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. Indeed McMillan and Chavis (1986), using the words sense and feeling numerous times, argue that a community exists only when persons have a “sense of community . . a feeling members have of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, and a shared faith that members’ needs will be met through their commitment to be together” (p.
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