Building Community in Schools

by Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Thomas J. Segiovanni

"Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of 'community' as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction decisions. . . . Teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and communities seeking advice and motivation for restructuring schools for the 21st century would be well advised to consult this work."
--Choice

"Provides the practitioner with both a theoretical blueprint with which to build learning communities and a rich supply of benchmark illustrations to use as prototypes. . . . thought-provoking and challenging."
--NASSP Bulletin

Both in and out of schools, people are experiencing a loss of community. In this book, Thomas J. Sergiovanni explains why a sense of community is so vital to the success of any school and shows teachers, parents, and administrators what they can do to rebuild it. Filled with case studies and other school examples, Building Community in Schools provides the necessary intellectual framework for understanding the need to create communities that are inclusive, meaningful, and democratic.

Genres: Education

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 1993

About the author

Thomas Sergiovanni was Lillian Radford Professor of Education at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas).

Reviews

[Eliezer Sneiderman · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book that analyzes the difference between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft and gives advice and techniques for building gemeinschaft.

[Cat]

Very interesting read........

[Barbara Lovejoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the books they gave us at our Principal Seminar. It has some great food for thought as we start to build community at Esperanza.