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How Does a Community of Learners Maintain Itself? Ecology of an Innovative School
Author(s) -
Matusov Eugene
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1999.30.2.161
Subject(s) - inclusion (mineral) , sociology , ecology , observational study , pedagogy , mathematics education , public relations , social science , psychology , political science , biology , medicine , pathology
This article asks how a community of learners maintains itself with the inclusion of new generations, each of which must explore the issue of what the community is about. An example of how new parent volunteers joined an innovative public elementary school is used. Four models of community maintenance defining the relationship between the community and newcomers are described and analyzed on the basis of observational studies of an innovative school and review of the literature.