Concept information
Preferred term
schools
Definition
- The term school usually refers to formal, institutionalized settings for imparting socially desirable knowledge, skills, and attitudes. In modern societies, children and youth spend many years in such settings, completing tasks assigned primarily by teachers, but interacting primarily with same-age peers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; School]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- academies
- advanced schools
- alternative schools
- beacon schools
- boarding schools
- Catholic schools
- charity schools
- choir schools
- city technology colleges
- closed schools
- community schools
- community schools and applied developmental research
- consultation to schools
- educational process: school perspectives
- eliot-pearson children's school
- European schools
- extended schools
- extended services
- failing schools
- faith schools
- feeder schools
- foundation schools
- free schools
- grant maintained schools
- health occupations schools
- hospital schools
- improving schools
- independent schools
- inner-city schools
- language colleges
- learning support units
- library schools
- middle school
- mixed schools
- Montessori schools
- nursery school
- poor law schools
- primary school
- Pupil Referral Units
- residential schools
- school bullying
- school refusal
- schools and school reform
- school transitions, impact, intervention, and policy
- school types
- secondary school
- single sex schools
- single-sex schools
- specialist schools
- special schools
- steiner schools
- successful schools
- summer schools
- supplementary schools
- sustainable schools
- training schools
- trust schools
- urban education
- voluntary schools
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/schools
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