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Beyond the Classroom
Building New School Networks
Author(s): Rosalyn Black
Publisher: ACER Press 2008
Beyond the Classroom calls for new models of schooling that recognise that the future of young people is the responsibility of the whole community. These models should form the basis of a new social alliance across school systems enabling all young people to take an active—if not leading—role in that community, beyond the school gates.
Beyond the Classroom is based on the findings of research carried out by the Education Foundation (now in alliance with the Foundation for Young Australians). The message that emerges from the research is that tinkering around the edges of schooling will not provide solutions to the widening gaps in education that limit opportunities for many young Australians.
Rosalyn Black is the Senior Research Manager at the Foundation for Young Australians. She has many years of experience of teaching and leadership in government schools and higher education and has worked with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, informing state and national policy directions.
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'Rosalyn Black and her contributors challenge us to acknowledge that children's education is the whole community's responsibility.'
Gerry Tickell
in Australian Educator, Summer 2009 (Issue 64)
'Beyond the classroom: Building new school networks provides a powerful and clear argument for contemporary schools to belong to community networks … The result is an important publication that seeks to redress inequities in the Australian social landscape, as well as to promote schooling designed to maintain the nation’s competitive edge in an increasingly globalised world.
This book goes beyond the rhetoric. Each chapter is strongly action-focused … I’m convinced. If you think that inequities in schooling opportunities and outcomes run counter to the Australia (and the world) you want to see, I strongly commend this book to you.'
Jenny Nayler
learning aJeNcy
'Black’s hypothesis that networks can provide the opportunity to enhance the potential of school and expand its focus beyond literacy and numeracy is an important point, particularly at a time when national league tables are gaining momentum ... Beyond the Classroom: Building new school networks is thought provoking and provides the community, policy makers and schools with a strong rationale for collaboration.'
Lauren Matthews
Policy Analyst – Children and Young People, Education and Training, VCOSS
in Just Policy Review, April 2009