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education management slides

1. LEARNING UNIT 1 THEME 2: Role Players of the Basic Education landscape

2. LO6 : Explain how working with the external community can help develop quality education

3. Key Concepts related to the external community School community : refers to the social unit consisting of educators, learners, administrative staff who meet daily at a school for the purpose of teaching and learning. It is a community with members interacting with each other, sharing a physical space, ethos and culture. School community refers to the geographical community and the institutions, services, leisure activities, local businesses and commercial enterprises that constitute the broader civic community. Also refers to people who over the years have shared geographical locality, adopted shared interests, needs, desires, norms, values and culture that binds them together as a unit

4. Key Concepts related to external communities Parent Community : refers to the individuals and families that have children in a particular school. Thus an individual whose child does not attend that school falls within the school community, but an individual whose child attends the particular school belongs to the parent community

5. Key Concepts related to external communities Collaboration: Refers to working jointly on an activity, as in teamwork or group activity in a classroom. It implies providing support, facilitation, assistance and criticism of a group in need. It means a mutual and reciprocal provision of services between two groups or individuals i.e. where the school provides services to the community and vice versa

6. Key concepts related to external communities Cooperation: It is to ‘work jointly on an activity’ Basic to cooperation is the existence of healthy relationships underpinned by trust, empathy and willingness to assist in conditions that foster cooperative actions. The school management team needs to establish an atmosphere that is inviting to parents and the community to participate in school activities

7. Key concepts related to external communities Partnerships SASA (1996)- acknowledges parents as active and necessary partners. Parents together with learners and educators are encouraged to accept responsibility for the organisation, governance and funding of schools in partnership with the state. The parent community can be seen as a partnership with the state on the one hand and the school (principal and educators) on the other hand. The Act creates opportunities and involvement of parents in the school and gives them legal powers to be purposefully involved in school activities.

8. School- Community collaboration Social problems in communities as broken homes, drug and substance abuse, violence against women and the like impact negatively on learning It is necessary for schools to collaborate with other organisation to address these problems

9. Benefits of schools collaborating with the community Improved learner attendance, positive attitudes towards the school and learning, increased homework completion, greater job satisfaction between the school and among teachers, improved communication and attitude between the school and community, higher quality of learning and delivery of learners who will be able to take their rightful place in contributing to the development of the community(NASP,1999)

10. Benefits of schools collaborating with communities Improve support for the school in terms of finance, supply of resources and maintenance of buildings and school premises Community involvement is a resource for school improvement projects, building and renovation, equipment for sports and other extra- curricular activities Graduates from various fields who will be able to contribute to the general economic and and social welfare of the community

11. Benefits of schools collaborating with communities The provision of crucial facilities to the community. E.g. through out of school programmes offered to the community – levels of illiteracy maybe reduced, skills provided to community members and levels of crime reduced

12. Why Schools should become centres of coordinating activities between themselves and surrounding communities Cotton (2001) cites the following reasons: Services are aimed at enhancing the development and education of the community. Easy to access the community through the youth attending school - Schools are usually geographically accessible and familiar to residents - Schools as community institutions are usually seen as neutral ground for agencies Source : PM1 – Chapter 8 (1 st Edition)