Reflects on the meaning of "community." Cites multiple perspectives from the past--those of J. Dewey, L. Vygotsky, F. Tonnies, of anthropologists who study indigenous peoples, and of other researcher/educators. Finds that in the school community a shared history evolves to forge a common bond that becomes the bedrock of a "learning…

For successful school reform, educators must think differently about the purpose of schools and educational delivery, and redesign infrastructures built on shared values and beliefs, multiple interacting linkages, and teamwork. School leaders are catalysts for change and, working with the school's power agents and modeling expected behaviors,…

For the first time in 200 years there is no clearly acknowledged national purpose for higher education. Through fundamental questioning, educators can establish a curriculum to prepare students to set a new agenda, rejuvenating both colleges and society. This focus on questions is not meant to encourage slow pace but ensure that the right…

Notes the need to rethink the importance of foundational courses in teacher education, critiquing important issues for practice; describing one foundations course; highlighting the need to examine what teachers are doing when they teach teachers; and drawing on Maxine Greene's philosophy to detail the quest to prepare teachers who can build a more…

Outlines how reading became occupied by scientists and positivists who made of reading something mundane, inconsequential, and quantifiable. Discusses the effect that this occupation has had on the pedagogy, politics, and policy of reading in schools and society. Examines the resistance to reading that is provoked by these occupying forces. (SR)

Discusses two recently published books and a multimedia kit that all deal with technology and the English class. Notes that an interest in artistic, creative approaches and in using multimedia to convey stories and ideas permeates all three works. (SR)

The tradition of the active mind views knowledge as provisionally constructed by the mind in perpetual interaction with the world. There are no substitutes for students' and teachers' consistent application of intelligence and steady thinking. A problem-based-learning approach to teacher education exemplifies John Dewey's laboratory model.…

Presents an overview of the teaching activities of Emma Azalia Hackley, an African-American concert artist, teacher, and author, who devoted much of her career to promoting music in black communities. Provides background information on music in the United States during the 19th century. Addresses connections between Hackley's work and contemporary…

Empiricism is culturally defined in that culture shapes sensory knowledge. Hawaiians recognize senses beyond the five that Western culture recognizes. Hawaiians are not unempirical; they draw conclusions of their own from their empirical experiences. It is time to validate other ways of knowing, long suppressed in the U.S. educational system. (TD)

This article argues for a redefinition of how secondary music teachers might think about teaching content. Rather than considering performance-based education that reaches only a small portion of the population, music teachers should consider composition, improvisation, and active listening as important additional concerns for a wider population…

Compares the educational and philosophical theories of John Dewey and Paulo Friere, articulating how each deals with two key relationships: action to reflection and individual to society. Their theories of experiential learning largely overlap, but they depart on the larger ideological purposes of education, with Freire more inviting of critical…

Provides an overview of the philosophy of "education-as-inquiry." Describes and examines a new Indianapolis, Indiana, public school, the Center for Inquiry, with 128 students and seven teachers, which follows an education-as-inquiry curriculum. Advocates an extended program of parent involvement at the center. (PA)

Argues that the regulated approach to schooling needs to be replaced by one that is more highly responsive and adaptable to changing circumstances and requirements. States that traditional structures and organizational arrangements inhibit the growth of scientific knowledge skills. Contains 20 references. (DDR)

Interprets student-teachers' responses to open-ended interview probes concerning the relationship of humans to the nonhuman natural world. Supports the argument for incorporating students' ecophilosophies into instruction in environmental education. Contains 24 references. (DDR)

Proposes that the primary educational challenge today is to replace the traditional focus on the individual student with concerted investments in relational process. Examines the deficiencies of individualistic educational practices, scholarship supporting the communal basis of knowledge and reason, and signs of change toward cooperative and…