Explores how interaction within an organization facilitates or hinders creation of "communities of difference." Examines how constructing a sense of "we" or "they" may be rigid or exclusive, thus hindering community building. Offers examples from school settings and recommendations for promoting inclusion of…

Summarizes a study of two principals' efforts to restructure schools serving predominantly Native American populations as learning communities. Presents an empirically based conceptualization of community for cross-cultural settings and identifies implications for school leaders. Although consensus can't always be achieved, learning communities…

Uses data from a longitudinal, ethnographic study of two predominantly Navajo schools to reexamine the concept of community. Explores issues of bilingualism, diverse community goals and attitudes, cultural understandings, and conflicting values embedded within the schools' social and educational contexts. Conceiving the school as a moral…