Full Description
This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also university-school (basic education) collaborative partnerships to improve local school systems. The increasing pressures to remove access and participation barriers, and to mitigate practices that restrict the free flow of education across borders, have created a growing global space for educational services of all types. As a result, traditional institutional boundaries have expanded to better respond to the increasing pressures placed on them by the growing demand for higher education services. The boundaries between educational institutions and other entities such as government, business, and non-profit organizations have become more fluid which has resulted in increased involvement by institutions, faculty, and students in activities outside the traditional boundaries of the classroom. This edited volume will specifically explore university partnerships for community and school system development.
Contents
Innovative Approaches in University Partnerships: An Introduction to University Partnerships for Community and School System Development.
University-School Partnership in the Framework of Informal Education.
Service-Based Initiatives in Teacher Education: Bridging Communities and Universities through Field Experiences.
Supporting the Expansion of Pre-primary Education in Ethiopia: A Collaboration between an Ethiopian and a UK Higher Education Institution.
Extending School Communities through University-School Partnerships.
Building Greater Capacity in Science Education: A partnership between a Secondary Science School and a Research-Intensive University.
Creating a Healing Campus: A Partnership between a University and a Provider of Mental Health Services.
Enhancing Global Competencies through International Partnerships in Elementary Schools.
Knowledge that Brings Us Together: University/School District Partnerships to Improve K-12 ELL Instruction.
Changing Demographics: Using University-School Partnerships to Support the Instruction of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Populations.
Distributed Leadership in a University-School Collaborative Partnership to Build the STEM Pipeline for Girls.
Focus West: A Successful Inter-Institutional, Multi-Agency Partnership to Improve School Pupils' Access to Higher Education.
University, School, Territory: Strategies and Activities of Inter-Institutional Partnerships of the Degree Course in Sciences of Primary Education.
Hunting Dragons: An Organic, Multidisciplinary Pedagogy.
Synergistic Benefits and Cultural Competencies in a Multidisciplinary PDS Partnership.
About the Authors.
Copyright page.
Foreword.
University Partnerships for Community and School System Development.
Author Index.
Series editor's introduction.
List of Contributors.
Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning.
Subject Index.
University Partnerships for Community and School System Development.
