Carol Merz - Community and schools: promise and paradox
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Community and school--United States, School environment--United States, Educational sociology--United States, Educational change--United States.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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LC221.M47 1997eb
ddc
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371.19
subject
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Community and school--United States, School environment--United States, Educational sociology--United States, Educational change--United States.
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Community and Schools
Promise and Paradox
Carol Merz and Gail C. Furman
Foreword by William P. Foster
Page iv
To our children Ruth and Sarah, Joshua and Leah who have taught us the meaning of community of kinship
Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Copyright 1997 by Teachers College, Columbia University
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Merz, Carol. Community and schools: promise and paradox / Carol Merz & Gail Furman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8077-3617-1 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-8077-3616-3 (pbk.) 1. Community and schoolUnited States. 2. School environment United States. 3. Educational sociologyUnited States. 4. Educational changeUnited States. I. Furman, Gail. II. Title. LC221.M47 1997 371.19dc21 96-50968
ISBN 0-8077-3616-3 (paper) ISBN 0-8077-3617-1 (cloth)
Printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents
Foreword
by William P. Foster
vii
1 The Dilemma of Community
1
Definitions of Community
3
Schools in Relationship to the Surrounding Community
5
Schools as Community
7
Criticisms of Community-Based Reforms: Expanding Bureaucracy
8
Conclusion
10
2 Theory of Community: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
12
Development of the Concepts
13
Role of the Individual
16
Choice and Will
18
The Continuum
19
Problems in Defining Community
20
3 Modern Notions of Community
22
Modern Communitarians
24
Critical Views: Problems of Power and Difference
27
The Role of Civic Life
29
Conclusion
31
4 Drifting Toward Gesellschaft: The Schools' Identity Crisis
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