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Sinopsis
Turn your school into a national center for community life and learning. This practical guide shows how rural communities can organize and sustain meaningful center-based work for years to come.
In The Community Center, L. J. Hanifan outlines a clear vision: local leadership, strong school involvement, and broad collaboration turn everyday classrooms into hubs of social life, culture, and civic engagement. The book explains why community-centered activity matters now and how it can be organized to fit local conditions. It’s designed for superintendents, supervisors, teachers, and other leaders who want a practical plan with real-world applications.
Three sections frame the value and method: foundational principles; the scope of community center activities; and ready-to-use programs for meetings and country life. The author emphasizes that improvements in rural life begin with the people themselves and that schools can serve as central, unifying spaces for communities.
- Understand the role of the school as a coordinating hub for community life
- Learn how to plan, lead, and adapt center activities with teachers and other leaders
- Explore chapters on entertainment, country life programs, and practical meeting ideas
- Discover how to use community gatherings to support teaching, attendance, and public speaking
Ideal for readers seeking a clear, actionable framework to strengthen rural education and local leadership through organized community activities.
Ideal for readers of educators, community organizers, and policy makers who want concrete guidance on building cooperative, school-centered programs.
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Chapters I to V deal with some of the more fundamental principles underlying the community center movement as related to rural life conditions. Chapters VI to X are intended to indicate the nature and the scope of com munity center activities and, partly by discussion and partly by illustration, to offer some suggestions for carry ing on the community center work. Chapters XI and XII contain a number of programs which may be found suggestive to teachers or other community leaders in making definite plans for the meetings. Chapter XI deals with entertainment programs, while Chapter XII suggests programs bearing upon country life. But since these two kinds of program may be used interchangeably, the reader would do well in actual practice to regard these two chapters as one.
In reading a book of this kind, one is apt to read the chapter first and then give more or less casual attention to the exercises at the end of the chapter. This method of reading might be improved by first examining the exercises as a guide to the reading. It is believed that the use of the book for reading circle purposes may be made most helpful by the latter method.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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In 1913, at the suggestion of Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools of West Virginia, I prepared A Handbook for Community Meetings at Rural Schoolhouses, for the use of West Virginia teachers in a campaign for reviving community social life, particularly in rural and village communities. Soon after this handbook was issued, Dr. P. P. Claxton requested, and was furnished, thirty-five hundred copies for distribution among the county superintendents of the United States. The continued demand for this handbook has been such that finally the editor of this series requested me to prepare the manuscript of a book on the community center, for teachers and educators interested in this movement, which should cover the entire field in a more comprehensive way.
Briefly stated, the book undertakes to present some of the more important rural life problems, particularly as regards rural social life and recreation, and to offer suggestions as to how the teacher, by means of the school as a community center, may contribute very largely to the solution of these problems.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the powerful potential of the rural schoolhouse as a community center, a concept that was revitalized in the early 20th century and brought into sharp focus during the First World War. The author, drawing on the rich history of community gatherings in early America, argues that the schoolhouse can be a hub for social, educational, and civic life in rural areas. The book examines the vital role of leadership in achieving this vision, considering the contributions of various institutions like the church, the home, and agricultural extension services. A key focus is the teacher's unique position as a community leader, empowered to foster collaboration and improvement in rural communities. This book offers practical guidance and insights, drawing on the experiences of successful community leaders to demonstrate how rural schools can become engines of progress and revitalization. By illuminating the untapped potential of the rural schoolhouse, the author provides a compelling blueprint for strengthening rural communities and enriching the lives of its residents. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331250029_0
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