community schooling and development

Reasons for governments' attraction to community education:

Cheapness . Kenneth King (1976) uses the syllogism: expansion = change = cheapness = community to describe the attraction of government to community education.

Economies of scale. The multiple use of schools by the community can result in cost-saving economies of scale in increasingly expensive school systems

Scruting: 'if schools are accountable to the local community bodies they will be more closely scrutinised and more efficiently run than is possible in countries where national supervisory personnel are often poorly trained, thinly spread and overwork' (Dove 1980:75).

Recent innovation: the revival of community schools; teachers (and students) as animateurs; and schools as self-financing production units.

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