Schools as Community Hubs: Building 'More than a School' for Community Benefit

This open-access book explores the planning, design, governance, and management of schools as community hubs, focusing on the facilities needed to accommodate shared experiences and deliver reciprocal benefits. It highlights the challenges and offers evidence-based insights into developing community-facing schools.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 334 pages
Publication date: 20 April 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This open-access book brings together research on the planning, design, governance, and management of schools as community hubs—places that support the development of better-connected, more highly integrated, and more resilient communities with education at the center. It explores opportunities and difficulties associated with bringing schools and communities closer together, with a focus on the facilities needed to accommodate shared experiences that generate social capital and deliver reciprocal benefits. This book discusses the expanded roles of schools and investigates how schools may offer more to their communities—historically, currently, and into the future—with respect to the role of the built environment in situating community activities and services. Organized around four sections, it showcases important areas of development in the field via an interdisciplinary approach, which weaves together empirical research with theoretical insights and practical examples. This book not only highlights the challenges associated with the development of schools as community hubs but offers evidence-based insights into how to overcome such hurdles to develop community-facing schools into the future.

This open-access book brings together research on the planning, design, governance, and management of schools as community hubs—places that support the development of better-connected, more highly integrated, and more resilient communities with education at the center. It explores opportunities and difficulties associated with bringing schools and communities closer together, with a focus on the facilities needed to accommodate shared experiences that generate social capital and deliver reciprocal benefits. This book discusses the expanded roles of schools and investigates how schools may offer more to their communities—historically, currently, and into the future—with respect to the role of the built environment in situating community activities and services. Organized around four sections, it showcases important areas of development in the field via an interdisciplinary approach, which weaves together empirical research with theoretical insights and practical examples. This book not only highlights the challenges associated with the development of schools as community hubs but offers evidence-based insights into how to overcome such hurdles to develop community-facing schools into the future.

Weight: 534g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811999741
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023