Subject: K-12 SD education in time?

Posted by Janis Dutton on 3/7/2008
In Reply To:K-12 SD education in time? Posted by Bill Rathborne on 3/7/2008

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It may be a bit of a judgement call as to whether things have improved or deteriorated, and definitions of inauthentic and authentic communities may be elusive, but they are conversations worth having.

People might be interested in more recent works, both quantitative and qualitative. I haven't read Etzioni, but some snowy week it might be fun to trace the path from 1968 to 1997.

Bellah, R., Madsen, R., Sullivan, W., Swidler, A., & Tipton, S.
(1996). Habits of the heart: Individualism and commitment in American life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Etzioni, A. (1995) The Spirit of Community. Rights responsibilities and the communitarian agenda, London: Fontana Press.

Etzioni, A. (1997) The New Golden Rule. Community and morality in a democratic society, London: Profile Books.

Putnam, R. D. (1993) Making Democracy Work. Civic traditions in modern Italy, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Putnam. R. D. (1995) Bowling alone: America's declining social capital [Electronic version.] The Journal of Democracy, 6:1, 65-78.
Retrieved February 2, 2002 from http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/ journal_of_democracy/v006/putnam.html

Putnam, R. D. (2000) Bowling Alone. The collapse and revival of American community, New York: Simon and Schuster.

Van der Veen, R. (2000) Learning societies. In V.J. Marsick, J.
Bitterman, R., & van der Veen, R. (Eds.). From the learning organization to learning communities toward a learning society (pp.
35-46). (Information series No. 382). Columbus, OH: Center on Education and Training for Employment. (ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education).

I also found, in my own decades of research and praxis that it was dangerous in my own learning to privilege recent writings over those from the past. Many of my current teachers are long dead. My copy of John Dewey's Education and Democracy is falling apart. Martin Buber wrote about authentic community and relationships. I'm not likely to read Buber as a primary source, but found the following useful. Some brief references to Etzioni can be found in this online encyclopedia as well.

Smith, M. K. (2000) 'Martin Buber on education', the encyclopedia of informal education, http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-buber.htm. Last
update: December 28, 2007.