The Community School
Frank Studulski & Karin Hoogeveen (Sardes)
Michiel van der Grinten & Miriam Walraven (Oberon)
2004
The first community schools in the Netherlands were started about ten years ago. Community schools are alliances of schools, child care, welfare institutions, sports clubs, libraries, health institutions and others. There are now 500 community schools in the Netherlands in over half of the country's municipalities.
Community schools are formed primarily by means of the efforts of local organizations that are convinced that, through cooperation, they have more to offer parents, children and community residents. Cooperation between the various disciplines results in more efforts to enhance the children's opportunities for development, to offer a closed system of day care and to strengthen social cohesion in the community.
The Dutch Community School Steering Group, which is an alliance of various ministries, the provinces and the Association of Netherlands Municipalities, has taken the initiative to support municipalities and institutions with a Community School Handbook. This brochure is based on that Handbook.
This brochure aims to support all people who are (or will be) working at a community school: project leaders, coordinators, staff members and policymakers of schools, institutions, administrations and municipalities. In writing this brochure, the authors have used as their basis the experience and views of a large number of expert representatives from all disciplines involved. The brochure offers a great deal of information to those who are starting on developing a community school, but also to those who have been involved in one for some years.
This site has been modified on 13-03-2012