Learning partnerships in ruralearly childhood settings

Authors

  • Kennece Coombe Charles Sturt University
  • Joy Lubawy Charles Sturt University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v12i1.478

Keywords:

learning communities, partnerships, early childhood

Abstract

In educational settings, there has been a move towards developing learning communities. The works of Senge (1992) and Sergiovanni (1994, 1999) for example, have pointed to the advantages for organisations of developing an ethos approaching that of a learning community. Harris (1999) takes this further when she identifies a number of different types of learning community. When these identifiers were applied to early childhood setting in one rural city, it was found that although the directors were keen to involve families and children as part of a learning community approach, the result more often took on the characteristics of 'partnership'. Partnerships encouraged collaboration and consultation but the final arbiter was the director. The predominant aim of this paper is to report on a project which sought to elicit from a group of directors information about their practices and whether these practices might fit within theframework of a learning community ora learnig partnership.

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Published

01-03-2002

How to Cite

Coombe, K., & Lubawy, J. (2002). Learning partnerships in ruralearly childhood settings. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 12(1), 8–14. https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v12i1.478