The Expectation for Principal Managing the Partnership and Cooperation between School and Community(Educational Administration and Community)

Abstract

In this paper, I have tried to clarify the significance of the school and the basic point of view to examine the partnership and cooperation between school and community, and to discuss the expectation for principal managing the partnership and cooperation between school and community. As the significance of the school, we can indicate the following three points; 1) the place for children to learn and grow, 2) the place for adults to learn, and 3) the core developing the community. Three following basic viewpoints are important to examine the partnership and cooperation between school and community; 1) to open the school to the community and to open in the school, 2) to contribute to the school by the community and to contribute to the community by the school, and 3) to promote the collaboration between school and community and to promote the collaborative network in the community. In order to manage the partnership and cooperation between school and community, it is important for principal to understand such the key words as "goal-sharing", "participation", "collaboration", and "coordination". Principals are expected to establish the vision of what the partnership and cooperation should be, to build the system which school can send and receive the information and intelligence of collaboration, and to enrich the coordinating function to connect the staff of school with local residents. It is important that adults and children become heroes/heroines in the community. So, the school will be expected to become the place where we can obtain the reality of a member sustaining the community through learning with company.