The Link Between the Community and the School in Child Development

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Schools are key “hubs” for many communities and can play an important role in their community without stepping outside their core educational role. Vibrant communities depend on the next generation having the values and skills to be active citizens and schools benefit society as a whole fostering these values in students. Having experience with communities as part of their school curriculum can help pupils become more effective citizens as young people and as future contributors to society. Hence, this essay is going to discuss why there was a need for a link between the school and the community in the development of knowledge and the curriculum. Black et al (2009) defines a link as “any of the separate rings that form a chain” or an emotional or logical relationship between people or things or association. A school is places were children are educated. A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values. Knowledge is the facts or experiences known by a person or group of people. A curriculum is a set of broad decisions about what is taught and it is taught, that determines the general framework within which lessons are planned and learning takes place. Thompson (2000) argues that “a pupil gets a forth of education from his teacher, another fourth from by his own efforts and the rest from parents”. In addition, for education to be completed the parents should not only depend on the teacher but also should also play their part in order for the education of a child to be complete. The relationship of a teacher and a parent with a child and their views about him or her are very different. For most teachers a child is just one of a large number of pupils in his or her class but for the parent of a child is part of their own self and their future hope. The estimates of a child ability, faults and behaviour by the teacher and parents often differs and it
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