"Disenchantment" has been a popular trope in the social sciences since Max Weber's appropriation of the term nearly a century ago. In recent years, however, scholars have come to argue that, in contrast to the standard modernization story of unabated rationalization, organizations have long been subject to countervailing forces. In this…

Much discourse on school shootings tends to imply a binary separation between what is considered normal and exceptional, between an expected course of human events and sociohistorical aberrations. In this article Harvey Shapiro suggests the need for new directions in our responses: First, he shows how responses to school shootings tend to…

In this essay Duck-Joo Kwak explores a moral perfectionist approach to citizenship education, which is distinct from liberal and communitarian models. One of educational challenges to this approach is how to cultivate our students' sense of membership, which is shaped by a thick sense of the good life, while being not merely compatible with but…

The author states that the lasting solution to educational and social problems rests upon a solution to the problem of community. (Author/MS)

Discusses the importance of community in critical thinking, presenting objectivist and nonobjectivist views of the conduct and teaching of critical thinking. An essential insight for education resulting from the nonobjectivist conception is the development of a commitment to the ethical values of community, democracy, freedom, and equality. (SM)

As defined here, the teacher as hero is one who is self-righteous and committed. He rises above the ethic by placing his particularity above the universal, by asserting his existence in the face of the constraints of inauthenticity. (Author/CB)

This article presents two perspectives on the place of individualism and community in American schooling. One view maintains that individualism has been ill-defined and played down, producing an unnecessary dichotomy between individualism and community. The second view argues for subordination of individual interests to community goals. (IAH)

Argues to reclaim the term "community," suggesting a conception of learning communities that values diversity, dialogical and material interaction, conflict, and complete member participation. After analyzing dichotomies of difference and community using Fraser's, Young's, and Ellsworth's writings, the paper examines feminist pragmatism…