Building community in schools

@inproceedings{Sergiovanni1993BuildingCI,
  title={Building community in schools},
  author={Thomas J. Sergiovanni},
  year={1993}
}
"Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully reinvented themselves in order to establish a sense of 'community' as the foundation for all curriculum and instruction decisions. . . . Teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and communities seeking advice and motivation for restructuring schools for the 21st century would be well advised to consult this work."--Choice "Provides the practitioner with both a theoretical blueprint with which to build learning communities and a… 

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