| Understanding Sarason's Concepts of School Cultures and Change: Joining a Community in School Improvement Efforts. | |
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PMID: 20857327 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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This paper describes an evolving transformative partnership between a large comprehensive university, an urban school system and a predominantly African-American, low-income neighborhood. The partnership's originating intent was to apply an array of university, civic and local resources to improve the academic performance of a neighborhood's schools and the health, welfare and economic well-being of its residents. The extent to which that partnership would precipitate transactional (Sameroff and Fiese, Handbook of early childhood intervention, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 119-149 in 1990) synergies among the partners was unanticipated; the long-term implications for each of the partners of such unfamiliar interactional processes remain unclear but are being systematically monitored over time. Evident at this point, however, it that a process has been initiated that has impacted how the university community, the local public school system, city government and the target neighborhood relate to each other, collaborate with each other and are changing each other. The pace of that process has varied over the years and challenged each partners' expectations and assumptions about the nature and consequences of their involvement. With time and perseverance, however, it appears that all are moving toward a sense of mutual learning and trust and toward extending to each other the benefit of the doubt. This paper discusses the evolution of that process and its implications for university-school-community collaborations. |
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Raymond P Lorion |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: American journal of community psychology Volume: 48 ISSN: 1573-2770 ISO Abbreviation: Am J Community Psychol Publication Date: 2011 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-11-08 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0364535 Medline TA: Am J Community Psychol Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 147-56 Citation Subset: IM |
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College of Education, Towson University, 8000 York Road, Towson, MD, 21252-0001, USA, rlorion@towson.edu. |
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