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The school as community center: extending education beyond school age to the entire community

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Description

The article characterizes the community-center school as a sociological movement in which the school plant serves the whole community that supports it. It reads the movement as "extending education far beyond the limits of school age" and as "sending the entire community to school," a vista of possibilities the reporter finds fascinating yet potentially distracting from routine classroom work.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A school plant and community that can be put to community service, as in the year-book experiments reported from cities and rural communities.

Constraints

  • The reporter warns the movement can make routine classroom tasks feel prosaic and of minor significance, a danger he says "inheres in much of our reform work in education."

Target Learners

  • entire community members beyond school age

Learning Goals

  • community education and civic use of the school plant

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • The Meetings at Mobile, Alabama, February 22-25, 1911. (1911). The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/journal/edu
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type design
id school-as-community-center-movement
title The school as community center: extending education beyond school age to the entire community
description The article characterizes the community-center school as a sociological movement in which the school plant serves the whole community that supports it.
status review
generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-24
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