ERIC_NO:
ED435946
TITLE:
Creating Safe Schools through Invitational Education. ERIC Digest.
AUTHOR:
Purkey, William Watson
PUBLICATION_DATE:
1999
ABSTRACT:
The National Center for Educational Statistics 1998 Report stated that one in ten schools in their sample reported at least one
violent crime over the past year. To promote school safety,
educators have used traditional law enforcement methods that rely
heavily on surveillance, penalties, and punishment. These methods
applied to schools can be effective but they carry major negative
side effects, including a large financial burden. This digest
represents an alternative approach to creating and maintaining safe
schools. The approach, known as Invitational Education, provides a
framework for making schools more exciting, satisfying, and
enriching. Invitational Education centers on four guiding principles
of respect, trust, optimism, and intentionality. The Five P's of the
concept, people, places, policies, programs, and processes, provide
the means to address the global nature and symbolic structure of
schools. It expands the education process by applying steady and
continuous pressure from a number of points. Rather than relying on
one program, one policy, or one process, Invitational Learning
addresses the total spirit within a school. It is concerned with
more than grades, attendance, academic achievement, discipline, and
test scores. It is concerned with the skills of becoming a decent
and productive citizen in a democratic society. (JDM)
MAJOR_DESCRIPTORS:
School Safety;
MINOR DESCRIPTORS:
Crime Prevention; Elementary Secondary Education; Prevention; Schools; Student School Relationship;
IDENTIFIERS:
ERIC Digests; Intentional Learning Module
PUBLICATION_TYPE:
071; 073