Building Relationships between Schools and Communities’ Agencies Crafting a Programmatic Proposal英文文献资料.docVIP

Creative Education 2012. Vol.3, No.3, 362-368 Published Online June 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ce) /10.4236/ce.2012.33057 Building Relationships between Schools and Communities’ Agencies: Crafting a Programmatic Proposal Imran Shaari, Shu-Shing Lee Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore Email: {imran.shaari, shushing.lee}@.sg Received April 26 , 2012; revised May 24 , 2012; accepted June 8 , 2012 th th th Building relationships are increasingly important because schools cannot act alone in the 21st Century to make learning relevant to learners. It is also pointed out that a good education requires diverse environ- ment—where learners can benefit from its unique qualities. In order to understand how relationships can be established without diluting the qualities, this paper proposes research collaborations between schools and communities’ agencies. Three sub-units that focus on research, policy and social are proposed. They are intended to co-inform schools and communities’ agencies in preserving unique qualities afforded by the entities for learners to benefit. Keywords: Programmatic Proposal; Relationships; Schools; Communities; Formal-Informal Learning Introduction: Research Aim and Background ized. The focus on structural relationships is motivated by trends This paper proposes future directions pertaining to bridging learning within schools and communities’ agencies with the view to benefit diverse learners. Diverse learners include learn- ers with different talents and learning abilities (for example, low or high abilities). The Ministry of Education’s (MOE), Singapore, definition of diverse learners: Special, Express, Normal (Academic) and Normal (Technical) (MOE, 2011a) i