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Role of the School in Community Development

SPENCER W. MYERS (is Superintendent of the Edina‐Morningside Public Schools, Minnesota. He has had a varied career as an administrator, including that of Superintendent of Flint, Michigan, Schools and Consultant to Army and Air Force Dependent Schools in Europe. Dr. Myers, who was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Association of School Administrators from 1960 to 1964, is a graduate of Hiram College (A.B.), Northwestern University (M.B.A.) and Indiana University (D.Ed.).)
W. FRED TOTTEN (Director of Graduate Study in Community Education of the Flint, Michigan Board of Education, and Professor in the Graduate School of Eastern Michigan University. He has held a wide variety of executive positions and visiting professorships in high schools and universities, and is author of The Role of the University in Community Development. Dr. Totten is an A.B. of DePauw and an M.A. and Ph.D. of Indiana University.)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 February 1966

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Abstract

The community school is a human engineering laboratory functioning on a broad basis to help people fulfill their basic needs. The basic academic needs of children and teen‐agers are fulfilled to a large extent within the formal portion of the program. Many other needs are fulfilled within the informal portions of the community school program. Much of the experience in the informal program strengthens performance and accomplishment in the academic areas of learning. Adults participate in many learning activities during the informal portion of the school day and obtain service through the school that helps them fulfill their basic needs. The community school takes the lead in involving children, youth and adults (sometimes separately and sometimes all groups combined) in programs that help to solve community problems. When individual learning needs of all age groups are fulfilled and when through united effort community problems are solved, community development will take place on many fronts.

Citation

MYERS, S.W. and FRED TOTTEN, W. (1966), "Role of the School in Community Development", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009604

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