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School as a Community Center: Impact of School-Family-Community Partnership in Student Education

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Iris Mançi

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2018.06.005

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Naim Frasheri High School, Durrës, Albania

ABSTRACT

Schools, families, and the community today are facing a very important common challenge: Quality education for children and young people, and opportunities to respond to their needs beyond academic ones. The school center community has the initiative of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the involvement of children is paramount. Children and young people are the active contributors to their well-being and development. Children have their own experiences and live in school contexts; they should be seen as agents of change, who analyze and take initiatives that provide a friendly school. School as a community center is a commitment to detaching school from its formal aspect. Run away from formalization implies opening the school to other social groups and a new form of cooperation with the community and specifically with parents. The essence of this structure is for the community to be closer to the school. This study aims to understand whether this partnership affects the development and education of students and young people. This study is focused on observing a middle school in the city of Durrës that follows this school model and browsing different literature. The findings of this study relate to the fact that the school sees what the most important needs of the students are and prepare a work plan for school students as well as children from the community (the case of learning foreign language English, etc.). This study comes with the next recommendations for schools as a community.

KEYWORDS

community center school, students, teachers, family, community

Cite this paper

Journal of US-China Public Administration, June 2018, Vol. 15, No. 6, 276-280

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