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What is Holistic Partnership

Chapter 2
Change and Improvement in School-University Partnership Settings: Emerging Research and Opportunities
A partnership arrangement between one or more schools and a university that is based on an organic rather than a symbiotic relationship, and that is characterized by integrative and coordinative change, innovation, research and improvement of K-12 education and professional education programs (13-20). Such K-20 partnerships target the separate domains of (a) the school’s curriculum and student learning (K-12), (b) the university’s preservice teacher preparation programs (13-16), and (c) the programs in professional inservice education (including masters and doctoral programs) (17-20), and then integrates them to effect fundamental change and continuous improvement. A holistic partnership operates on the notion that the whole has an identity separate from and greater than the sum of its individual parts.
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A K-20 Holistic Partnership for Change and Improvement: A Special Case of Educational Partnerships and Research
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 47
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7860-5.ch002
Abstract
This chapter identifies the theoretical assumptions and a conceptual framework for a holistic and integrative partnership focused on change and improvement in K-20 education and teacher education. Such K-20 partnerships are based on the notion that an organic and integrated whole has a reality independent and greater than the sum of its parts. The author presents the case and urgent need today for re-inventing education by joining and converging the K-12 and higher education (13-20) sectors for an improved system of education and student learning. Included in the schema is the students' voice in the process of change. The essential and transportable elements of a K-20 holistic partnership in education are explained and two successful theory-into-practice examples of partnerships—Project SCOPE I and II—are briefly described. Also a model research approach and perspective on change and continuous improvement for the transformation of American education is offered.
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