Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power and Promise

Schools hold promise and potential as critical community-development actors, but they face many challenges, according to Mildred Warner, Director of the Polson Institute for Global Development and professor in City and Regional Planning and the Department of Global Development. Join us for a live, hybrid Chats in the Stacks book talk with Warner on her recent publication Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power and Promise (Routledge, 2024) coedited with Jason Reece and Xue Zhang.

Warner will discuss the challenges of incorporating schools into broader community and economic development policy, including topics such as new approaches to school building renovation, the potential and reach of shared services between communities and schools, and the impact of school-based health centers. Community Development and Schools also offers a theory of how to integrate schools into community development, including through shared power between communities and schools, collaboration with community actors, and engagement of diverse voices that build a sense of belonging across generations and class and racial divides.

The Open Access version of this book is available here: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/92416/1/9781040120682.pdf

This talk is hosted by Mann Library. Light refreshments will be served.