Ecosystem Community, Networks and partnerships
Last Updated On August 20, 2018
Brief Description
Content around communities, networks and partnerships that exist in the broader K-12 ecosystem and their influence on schools and schooling. This includes content on networks, coalitions, partnerships, community programs, community interventions, collective action that impact the formal K-12 school system.
Rationale for inclusion in the Taxonomy
Research and knowledge on educational change and reform have shown the importance of the development of communities, community involvement, the development of partnerships and networks in societies as well as in the broader ecosystem of schools in bringing about change. There are specific, targeted knowledge around these kinds of approaches and interventions to change and including this as a discrete concept in the taxonomy allows for such specialized and focused knowledge to emerge on the platform.
Vocabulary/Synonyms
Community engagement with education, community needs and participation in schooling, partnerships and networks, ecosystem partnerships and networks, collective action, social movements