INNOVATION IN PARTICIPATION OF

COMMUNITY
GROUP 8
What is innovation?
Innovation in its modern meaning is a "new idea, creative
thoughts, new imaginations in form of device or method".
Innovation is often also viewed as the application of better
solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or
existing market needs. Such innovation takes place through the
provision of more-effective products, processes, services,
technologies, or business models that are made available to
markets, governments and society.
INNOVATION IN EDUCATION
“Innovation in education means doing what’s best for all
students. Teachers, lessons, and curriculum have to be flexible.
We have to get our students to think and ask questions. We
need to pique their curiosity, and find ways to keep them
interested. Innovation means change, so we have to learn that
our students need more than the skills needed to pass the state
assessments given every spring. We have to give them tools that
will make them productive in their future careers.”
COMMUNITY
A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living
things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion,
values, or identity. Communities often share a sense of place
that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country,
village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space through
communication platforms. Durable relations that extend
beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of
community. People tend to define those social ties as important
to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions (such
as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity at-
large)
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN
EDUCATION
School Directors:
Community participation in education is a process involving parents,
authorities and education relevant stakeholders in education. This
involvement occurs in the form of ideas, money, materials and labour
contribution for school development.

Teachers:
Community participation in education is the participation in
receiving education information from schools and spreading in the
community. Community participates through sending their children
to schools and contributing ideas, money and materials whenever the
school asks for help.
SSC Leaders:
Community participation in education is the processes of
receiving and spreading education information in the
community. It is the process of mobilizing resources in the
communities for school improvement.

Parents:
Community participation in education is the contribution of
money, materials, labour and ideas for school improvement
such as school construction, and sending children to school and
helping children learning at home.
Authorities:
Community participation in education is the involvement in
spreading education information and value of education to local
authorities and community in order to get children get
education. Community participates through resource
contribution such as money and labour for school and
education development.
Types and Processes of Community
Participation in Education
Parenting
With regard to parenting, families are basically held responsible for
educating their children in the basic skills, knowledge, norms,
behaviors, values and beliefs of the families and society (Bornstein,
2005).

Learning at home
This is a form of participation that involves the activities where
families assist their children‘s learning at home such as homework
and other curriculum-related activities. Teachers can provide basic
knowledge about teaching to parents so that they can assist their
children learning (Bornstein, 2005).
Communicating
This type of participation refers to the communication between
the schools and families about the education program and the
children‘s learning progress at school (Bornstein, 2005).

Volunteering
Volunteering concerns the involvement of parents and others
volunteered to assist teachers, administrators, and children in
classrooms or in other areas of the school to improve quality of
education and children‘s learning (Epstein, 2006).
Decision-making
Participation in the decision-making process is the involvement of
parents and community members in school decisions, governance,
and advocacy activities for school and education development
through the school committee (Epstein, 1992, 1995, 2006; Epstein
& Salinas, 2004).

Collaborating
This form of participation is concerned with the collaboration of the
schools, agencies, businesses, organizations and other groups to share
responsibilities for improving schools and education (Epstein, 1995).
THANK YOU