What are schools with heart? They are schools that invite a profusion of volunteers to work inside them. Rich in community connections, the schools and the students they serve benefit considerably from donations of time.The importance of school volunteers has been underestimated greatly as an aspect of educational policy. Often regarded as just providing “extras,” their presence in public schools brings acutely needed resources, raises issues of who controls schools, and contributes to the growth of social capital among students, school personnel, and community members. The use of volunteers may be one of the key solutions to problems facing public elementary schools today.Brown explores school voluntarism by using original data gathered from 185 interviews with public school principals, teachers, and volunteers, many of whom worked in schools known for their volunteer programs. Supplementing these data from other studies, this careful inquiry finds that volunteers offer much to schools. Administrators and teachers respond to their willingness to give and thus “make them welcome.” Schools with heart are voluntary public schools—ones that rely on the benevolence of many people as well as public funding.School voluntarism is seen as a special bridge between primordial institutions (such as families) and modern institutions (such as public schools). Brown shows that the use of benevolence in schools offers a vision of how education may be changed. He presents some recommendations for policies that would alter the balance between public and private support for public education.Highly readable and thought-provoking, this book is of interest to all persons who are concerned about public schools and the children in them. They include policy makers, administrators, teachers, and parents.
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Daniel J. Brown is professor of education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has written books and articles on school-based management, voluntarism, and school enterprise.
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voluntary public school, school voluntarism, modern corporate actors, unselected schools, social galaxies, caring norm, lower income schools, primordial institutions, school volunteer programs, school benevolence, normative conformity, common volunteer, nonpublic schools, lower income parents, giving behaviour, affective bonding, learning norm, school volunteers, prospective volunteers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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voluntary public school, school voluntarism, modern corporate actors, unselected schools, social galaxies, caring norm, lower income schools, primordial institutions, school volunteer programs, school benevolence, normative conformity, common volunteer, nonpublic schools, lower income parents, giving behaviour, affective bonding, learning norm, school volunteers, prospective volunteers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- A Treatise on the Family: Enlarged Edition by Gary S. Becker on page 143
- Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder in Front Matter
- In School (Little Nippers Stay Safe) by Lisa Bruce in Back Matter
- Princeton University by Alison Fraser in Back Matter
- Democracy in America (Signet Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville in Back Matter
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