Mission and Purpose of the centre: The Centre for the Community School endeavours to:

  • Develop theoretical and practice-based models of school improvement that are relevant and responsive to the contextual realities of schools taking into consideration social, political and economic contexts around the child, instituitions and the community.
  • Interact with multiple stakeholders through collaborative processes of teaching and learning, engagement, and scholarship.
  • Support community schools in the Eastern Cape and elsewhere in the country.
  • Collaborate with other institutions and organisations with a similar focus around school improvement locally and internationally.
Mission: the CCS endeavours to interact with multiple stakeholders through collaborative processes of teaching and learning, engagement, and scholarship.
Vision: CCS is an engaged Centre focused and concerned with education in all its facets, taking into consideration social, political and economic contexts around the child, institutions and the community.