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Public Alternative School
A public alternative school is a state school that "provides alternative learning experiences to the conventional school program and which is available by choice to every family in the community at no extra cost".Marilyn R. Cohn and Mary Ellen Finch“The Public Alternative High School: 1 Solution to or Reflection of Societal Ills?” ''Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly'', Vol. 6, No. 1 (February 1975), pp. 9–15. They include: *Open school * School Without Walls *Learning centers *Continuation school *Multicultural schools * Free school *Schools within schools Examples *Al Kennedy Alternative High School * City School (Vancouver) * Connections Alternative School * Kingsland School * Leonia Alternative High School *Metropolitan Learning Center (Portland, Oregon) *School Without Walls (Canberra) The School Without Walls (SWOW) was a public alternative school in Canberra, the capital of Australia, which operated from 1974 to 1997. History In 1973, a group of stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative School
An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, while others are more ''ad hoc'' assemblies of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspect of mainstream or traditional education. Some schools are based on pedagogical approaches differing from that of the mainstream pedagogy employed in a culture, while other schools are for gifted students, children with special needs, children who have fallen off the track educationally or expelled from their base school, children who wish to explore unstructured or less rigid system of learning, etc. Features There are many models of alternative schools but the features of promising alternative programs seem to converge more or less on the following characteristics: * the approach is more individualized; * integration of children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |