Schools as Community Hubs

Part 1: Scene-setting.- Renewed aspirations for schools as community hubs.- A framework for building schools as community hubs: If it were simpler would it happen everywhere?- Part 2: Partnering.- School-community collaboration: Insights from two decades of partnership development.- Brokering school-community partnerships: Cross-sector advocacy and hard work.- Rear Vision: Lessons from community education in the 80s.- Nature as partner: How school communities benefit from ecological connections.- Part 3: Planning.- School and community infrastructure networks: What might these look like?- Valuing urban schools as social infrastructure.- Connecting schools with local communities through walkable urban design.- Safe yet welcoming: alternative design strategies for secure schools.- Schools as ‘Sacred Enclaves’ or ‘Community Hubs’? South Korean experiences.- Part 4: Designing.- Progressive pedagogies and community connections: Forty years of urban planning and architectural design.- Designing for the needs of a thriving school community hub.- Planning Doveton College: Holistic vision, innovative design and paving the way for others.- Vertical schools as community hubs.- Developing a school and community learning hub: A case study from regional Australia.- Part 5: Enabling.- Emotional labour and developing schools as community hubs.- Policy for schools as community hubs: Insights into a fragmented environment.- Theorising the development, implementation and sustainability of schools as community hubs.- An evaluation framework for schools as community hubs.- The role of evaluative thinking in the success of schools as community hubs.- Are schools as community hubs worth it?