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Towards extended schools? How education and other professionals understand community-oriented schooling

Lookup NU author(s): Colleen Cummings, Professor Liz ToddORCiD

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Abstract

The government in England is proposing that every school should offer extended services to children, families and communities. However, in the absence of agreed models of how such community-oriented schooling should operate, its form will depend on how it is understood by the education professionals and their partners in other agencies who have to make it work in practice. This article draws on data from interviews with over 350 professionals to outline two such understandings. It suggests that they rest on different assumptions about fundamental social and educational issues and argues for a more open debate around these issues. © 2006 National Children's Bureau.

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Author(s): Cummings C, Todd L, Dyson A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Children and Society

Year: 2007

Volume: 21

Issue: 3

Pages: 189-200

Print publication date: 01/05/2007

ISSN (print): 0951-0605

ISSN (electronic): 1099-0860

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00043.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2006.00043.x

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