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Across
the Southeast Asian region, there is growing realization
that the problems faced by the education sector
are simply too large and too complex to be taken
single-handedly by the Ministry or Department
of Education. As a response, schools have opened
their doors for meaningful partnerships with the
people in their respective communities, such as
the business sector, the parents and civic organizations.
The community has been increasingly tapped to
play an active role in enhancing the teaching-learning
process, either by providing financial and logistical
resources or applying other forms of interventions.
An
important milestone in the promotion of school-community
partnership in the region is the adoption by SEAMEO
of the theme “Engaging Communities to Improve
the Quality of Education” during a meeting
held in Manila in 2003. School-community partnership
has since then become one of the major crusades
of SEAMEO. Barely a year after that, on February
2004, SEAMEO INNOTECH hosted the regional forum
on School-Community
Partnerships for Educational Quality Improvement.
With funding support from the UNESCO Participation
Programme, presented here are actual school-community
partnership projects or programs being implemented
or already monitored and evaluated in SEAMEO member
countries. These include those presented during
the February 2004 regional forum in INNOTECH.
Aside from these are resources for download that
caters to a variety of community concerns. It
is hoped that these resources present nuggets
of wisdom about what makes school-community partnerships
worth the effort.
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