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Community Development Approaches to Safety and Wellbeing of Indigenous Children. A Resource Sheet Produced for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse
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Higgins, Daryl J. – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2010
In this resource sheet, Dr Higgins examines child abuse and neglect in Indigenous communities from a societal perspective: applying a community development framework to understand effective strategies for reducing risks and enhancing children's safety and wellbeing. To be effective, strategies to address the problem of child abuse in Indigenous…
Descriptors: Community Development, Indigenous Populations, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
The Case for School Based Decision Sharing. A Discussion Paper.
Andrews, Greg – 1978
If schools are to be professionally responsive to and accountable to their clients, each school must have some control over decisions affecting its particular student body. These include decisions in the areas of policy, curriculum, staffing, facilities, resources (and related finances), evaluation processes, and participation in system-level…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Control, Community Involvement, Decentralization
Reinventing Central Office. A Primer for Successful Schools.
Berne, Robert; And Others – 1995
Since 1993, school reform leaders from Chicago (Illinois), Denver (Colorado), New York (New York), Seattle (Washington), and Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) have come together in the Cross City Campaign to work for the improvement of urban education. In each of these cities rhetorical pleas for decentralization and the investment of decision making in…
Descriptors: Central Office Administrators, Centralization, Community Control, Decentralization
[Four Short Papers Highlighting Aspects of a Study of Citizens' Organizations: Citizen Participation in Educational Decisionmaking].
Institute for Responsive Education, Boston, MA. – 1979
Each of these four papers highlights findings of a National Institute of Education-sponsored project entitled "Citizen Organizations: A Study of Citizen Participation in Educational Decisionmaking." The first paper, "Class, Power, and Networking: Implications of Existing Network Patterns Among Groups," discusses the effect of inter-organizational…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Board of Education Policy, Citizen Participation, Community Control