Community Development Officer

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Definition
A person in charge of creating a link between schools, homes and communities. The Community Development Officer is meant to show ‘how parents and other community members could support the schools and how the schools could work with communities’ (Bray, 1999: 17).

References
Bray, M. 1999. Community partnerships in education: dimensions, variations, and implications. Paris: UNESCO. Retrieved from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001234/123483E.pdf