Schools as Stakeholders in community, city and region: Exploring their contribution.

Session outline: Schools are one of the most dynamic and essential stakeholders in a learning city or region. They are presently undergoing great changes in order to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. These mostly entail a closer relationship and role with the community in which they exist and, paradoxically, a larger commitment to the international world. This session, which may take several hours to complete and is divided into different topics, touches upon some of these challenges and explores the many ways that schools are becoming key organisations in the construction of learning communities, cities and regions. Not only the school in the community but also the community in the school.