Extended Schools / Community Focused Schools / Integrated Schools: a background
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Here are some background articles about where the idea of putting schools at the centre of their communites as learning and care hubs has come from.
Henry Morris on the village college - precursor to community schools and extended schools 'The Village college ... would create out of discrete elements an organic whole; the vitality of the constituent elements would be preserved, and not destroyed, but the unity they would form would be a new thing. For, as in the case of all organic unities, the whole is greater than the mere sum of the parts. It would be a true social synthesis - it would take existing and live elements and bring them into a new and unique relationship.'