The Community Center (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

L. J. Hanifan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331250021 ISBN 13: 9781331250029

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Turn your school into a national center for community life and learning. This practical guide shows how rural communities can organize and sustain meaningful center-based work for years to come.

In The Community Center, L. J. Hanifan outlines a clear vision: local leadership, strong school involvement, and broad collaboration turn everyday classrooms into hubs of social life, culture, and civic engagement. The book explains why community-centered activity matters now and how it can be organized to fit local conditions. It’s designed for superintendents, supervisors, teachers, and other leaders who want a practical plan with real-world applications.

Three sections frame the value and method: foundational principles; the scope of community center activities; and ready-to-use programs for meetings and country life. The author emphasizes that improvements in rural life begin with the people themselves and that schools can serve as central, unifying spaces for communities.

• Understand the role of the school as a coordinating hub for community life


• Learn how to plan, lead, and adapt center activities with teachers and other leaders


• Explore chapters on entertainment, country life programs, and practical meeting ideas


• Discover how to use community gatherings to support teaching, attendance, and public speaking

Ideal for readers seeking a clear, actionable framework to strengthen rural education and local leadership through organized community activities.

Ideal for readers of educators, community organizers, and policy makers who want concrete guidance on building cooperative, school-centered programs.

About this title

Product Description

Excerpt from The Community Center In 1913, at the suggestion of Hon. M. P. Shawkey, State Superintendent of Schools of West Virginia, I prepared A Handbook for Community Meetings at Rural Schoolhouses, for the use of West Virginia teachers in a campaign for reviving community social life, particularly in rural and village communities. Soon after this handbook was issued, Dr. P. P. Claxton requested, and was furnished, thirty-five hundred copies for distribution among the county superintendents of the United States. The continued demand for this handbook has been such that finally the editor of this series requested me to prepare the manuscript of a book on the community center, for teachers and educators interested in this movement, which should cover the entire field in a more comprehensive way. Briefly stated, the book undertakes to present some of the more important rural life problems, particularly as regards rural social life and recreation, and to offer suggestions as to how the teacher, by means of the school as a community center, may contribute very largely to the solution of these problems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331250021
• ISBN 13: 9781331250029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230