Smaller Schools: a conflict of aims and purposes?
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 50 Number 2 (2008)
Smaller Schools: a conflict of aims and purposes?
MARY TASKER pages 177-184
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2008.50.2.177
Abstract
This article tracks recent developments in the debate about secondary school size. It looks at the growth of the small schools movement in the United States and at initiatives currently underway in the United Kingdom. The article explores various strategies for reconfiguring secondary schools into smaller learning communities or 'schools within schools' and argues that the appeal of smaller learning communities in schools springs from very different value positions which need to be clearly articulated and publicly debated.
To cite this article
MARY TASKER (2008) Smaller Schools: a conflict of aims and purposes?, FORUM, 50(2), 177-184. https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2008.50.2.177