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Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth asserts that the relationships between education, community, and democracy are inseparable and illustrates that education is broader than just schooling. Harbour challenges current thinking about education and reveals how the public participates in the education and development of youth. This book is a call for action and responsibility-both individual and collective-to transform education beyond simply reforming schools. The author's professional educational experiences, combined with stories from the field by and about youth and community educators, exemplify the importance of citizen collaboration among the various sectors of the community, including youth, parents, schools, businesses, and neighborhood residents. The book includes a foreword by Kettering Foundation president David Mathews.

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Publié par	Kettering Foundation
Date de parution	01 janvier 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781945577253
Langue	English

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REVIEWERS RESPOND

NEW from Kettering Foundation Press

Announcing the publication of…
COMMUNITY EDUCATORS
A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth

By Patricia Moore Harbour—Foreword by David Mathews

All American citizens … should read this book…. Harbour introduces possible remedies and advances new ideas that address the negative and restraining effect of many children enrolled in public school.
E.D. Gadsden , former attorney, federal administrative law judge

Here’s an essential book that helps us see how we can make education the responsibility and work of our entire community…. We must act on what she has to teach us.
Richard C. Harwood , founder/president Harwood Institute for Public Innovation

Harbour’s personal experiences, in several instances, made me feel I was there, a “living” witness to that which was described.
Doris Yancey , former president /CEO Marion Adult Education and Career Training Center

This book is an interesting and illuminating discussion of what should be the transformation of educational policy.
Linda Goldberg , principal, Potomac Elementary School, Potomac, MD

Community Educators, or those persons interested in becoming Community Educators, will find this book most helpful. It defines and explores, in depth, the Youth Community, helpful youth community services, challenges one may confront in providing youth community services and successful youth community services.
Luther C. Williams , former Fairfax County, VA, teacher, school administrator, and human resource administrator

If you really want to know some ways to improve the education and development of the youth in your community, read this timely and inspiring book. Find out why, in a democracy, the public is responsible for educating its youth.
Antoinette Crichton Hawkins , former elementary and high school teacher and college instructor

I want to congratulate Harbour on writing a much needed treatise for popular consumption on what communities are doing to help young people understand that they are cared about and that they are valuable.
Goldie Watkins Bryant , former New York City Deputy Commissioner for Health

This book is timely and welcomed. Its emphasis on the community taking responsibility and the need for collaboration to improve education is nothing less than crucial…. It is … how we will strengthen our civilization.
Julie O’Mara , former national president, American Society for Training and Development, and author

Community Educators is an honest account of our inability to truly transform our education system…. Harbour challenges us … to have the courage to take responsibility for our role in the education of young people.
Kim Eisenreich , Senior Associate Afterschool Initiatives, Institute for Youth, Education & Families, National League of Cities

With up to 40 percent of American youth in many communities unable to participate productively in our society, the very future of our country depends not only upon effective transformation of our schools, but transformation of understanding that education requires engagement by entire communities.
Phil Stewart , professor emeritus, The Ohio State University, and director of the Berwick Boys Foundation

This is an important book! Certainly, we all give lip service to the idea that it takes a village to raise a child, but this book translates this idea into concrete ways in which we all—individuals and institutions, not only schools—have important roles to play in the education of our children.
Diane U. Eisenberg , president, Eisenberg Associates

Community Educators is a much needed study of developing young people’s capacities beyond the school zone.
David W. Brown , coeditor of Kettering’s Higher Education Exchange and author of The Real Change-Makers: Why Government Is Not the Problem or the Solution

In Community Educators , Pat Harbour challenges all of us to broaden our view of youth learning and education to include “community educators” as key partners. Pat’s call for collaborative relationships among citizens in all community sectors has inspired my belief that we can make a positive transformative difference in fostering the healthy development and optimal education of our children.
Becky Cooper , executive director, Friends for Youth, Inc.

Through the tracing of reform efforts, research, and stories of real-life experiences, one cannot help but realize we must transform our paradigm about education…. Do we have the will to change? READ THIS BOOK!
Mary K. Boyd , former area superintendent, Saint Paul, MN, Public Schools; interim dean of the Graduate School of Education, Hamline University; interim director, Services to Children and Families, Ramsey County, MN

This publication challenges all of us to reexamine our values and beliefs not only about educational achievement but about the interconnectedness between education, community, and democracy.… Readers are inspired to redefine our conversation about school reform to one of transforming education. As a youth-development professional, I found this publication to be a breath of fresh air…. I highly recommend this publication.
Kathryn W. Johnson , executive director, Alternatives, Inc.

In light of the current attacks on an affordable college education we can ill afford to turn our heads and ignore what is happening with increasing regularity in our school systems. Our children are often caught up in the winds of political change with little thought of the ramifications…. Hat’s off to “Dr. Pat” for bringing this issue to the forefront!
Velicia Waymer , CPLP Training Design & Development Specialist, 1st Advantage Federal Credit Union

Who among us has not wondered, fretted, puzzled, and perhaps even grieved over the seemingly intractable combination of problems impeding our collective attempts to overcome the dismal legacy of this nation in the mission of educating our youth…. I share Harbour’s vision that the solution is within ourselves…. We the People must become We the Educators .
Capt. Rupert W. Church , USAF (ret.); former program director, General Dynamics

This book clearly brings forth the understanding that education is more, much more than schooling…. It is made clear by cited experiences and examples that the education of the whole child is best achieved when the community as a whole is engaged.
David C. Farley , scoutmaster, Boy Scouts of America; former community foundation executive

I think Patricia Harbour is really on to something. There is a freshness to her approach…. This book helps those of us in the community and in the schools to see how we are interconnected. Harbour has written a book that has created a framework for real dialogue.
Juan Carlos Arauz , executive director, E3: Education, Excellence & Equity

This book is a winner…. The reader is guided on a meaningful journey that melds the roles of parents, teachers, community educators, action leaders, business directors, and grassroots principles into program successes, supported by a passion for fostering the success of the youth they serve.
Beverly Mattox , author, former school administrator, and training specialist

Pat Harbour makes a clear distinction between “reform” and “transformation.” Reform … is the equivalent of rearranging the furniture; this can’t take us anywhere that matters. Transformation, in contrast, is systemic change. I feel confident that teachers and communities working together as partners can bring the transformation…. Pat Harbour, I thank you. And I assure you that you don’t stand alone as you reach for transformation.
Bob Cornett , “recovering” Kentucky bureaucrat and co-director Festival of the Bluegrass, Lexington, KY

COMMUNITY
EDUCATORS
A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth

By Patricia Moore Harbour Foreword by David Mathews
Research Associate: Amshatar Monroe Editors: Margie Loyacano Melinda Gilmore Copy Editor: Lisa Boone-Berry Design and Production: Long’s Graphic Design, Inc.
© 2012 by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Patricia Moore Harbour
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth is published by the Kettering Foundation Press. The interpretations and conclusions contained in this book represent the views of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, its directors, or its officers.
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This book is printed on acid-free paper.
First edition, 2012
Manufactured in the United States of America
ISBN: 978-0-923993-44-3
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012940361
This book is dedicated to Payton, Christopher, Cameron, and Camden, my grandsons. May you be always nurtured, developed, and educated in a culture of learning that supports you and facilitates you to become wise leaders and the confident, caring, competent, contributing, citizens you are destined to be.
—Your very own, Gigi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
T he beauty of writing a book is the journey and what is encountered along the way. Although, what is to be written is clear, there are many branches bearing fruit. Choices must be made to stay on course. The best learning is experiential so, when I choose a branch that is interesting and valuable but does not serve the purpose, I return to the path, note what has been learned, make a course correction if necessary, and continue the journey. With each step, each quarter turn, there is a deeper wisdom and knowledge that emerges and the author’s life, my life, is enriched. I am deeply grateful to the Kettering Foundation and to its president, David Mathews, whose commitment to the relationship between democracy, education, and communities initiated the inquiry that gave birt