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Ecological approach and community education as promoters of the social development of reform school students

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ABSTRACT New models of operation are being sought for Finnish reform school education traditionally based on segregation. This article deals with the possibilities of applying the ecological approach and community education to support the socialization of reform school students. The aim is to describe the participation of the students in one Finnish reform school, as well as their expressed need to join in the production system, cultural system, contact system and the decision‐making system of society. This article presents part of a larger project carried out at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. In the research project a three‐part division in the description into an ideal state, a realistic state and a reform state is utilized. In the reform state recommendations for an ecological application based on the ecological approach and community education are outlined, orienting reform school education to society.