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Download full textSiskar, John; Theobald, Paul – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2008
Place and community are terms used with ever more frequency in discussions, reports, and research related to education, yet there is little agreement related to what these terms mean. This article examines the concepts of place and community in an attempt to bring more clarity to the role they may play in educational theory and, ultimately,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Policy, Role Perception, Community
Theobald, Paul; Nachtigal, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Redesigning education to recreate an ecologically sustainable community is a critical societal need. Educators should focus not on technological fixes, but on formulating new cultural assumptions. As Wendell Berry realized, genuine improvement will begin only in the country. Rural schools should stop emulating urban and suburban schools and attend…
Descriptors: Community, Cultural Background, Ecology, Educational Change
Direct linkTheobald, Paul – American Journal of Education, 2006
This essay contends that there are fundamental connections between a nation's political arrangements and its educational efforts on behalf of youth. Though the common school architects of the nineteenth century recognized these connections, they were profoundly forgotten in a later Darwinian milieu that suggested--our allegiance to democracy…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Essays, Organizational Development, Community
Theobald, Paul; Mills, Ed – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Discusses issues defining the boundaries of the current accountability debate, focusing on the historical struggle between the ideas of philosopher John Dewey and psychologist Edward Thorndike. In the Thorndike camp, corporate America wants educators to continue to sort, select, and label children, aided by standardized testing. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Business, Community, Democracy
Theobald, Paul; Newman, Vicky – 1994
The current debate between liberals and communitarians in the field of political theory helps to explain the magnitude of the forces aligned against significant change regarding the communal dimensions of schooling and to expose current schooling practices that are most destructive of the possibility of vibrant community life. This essay notes the…
Descriptors: Community, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories
Peer reviewedTheobald, Paul; Dinkelman, Todd – Peabody Journal of Education, 1995
Examines the debate between liberals and communitarians, offering a sympathetic reading of the communitarian critique of liberalism and discussing its implications for school reform. The article lays a foundation for a series of articles that focus on the community-individual nexus as it relates to educational theory and practice. (SM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Community, Educational Change, Educational Theories
