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Learning Community:
Finding Common Ground in Difference
Patricia Calderwood
Pub Date: May 2000, 176 pages
Paperback: $22.95, ISBN: 0807739529
 
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"Precisely at the moment when schools are scrambling, post-Columbine, for ways to become small, intimate, and filled with a sense of belonging and of being known, Calderwood incites a national conversation about how to create communities for and with youth, in which differences flourish, equity is sought, and learning soars."
–Dr. Michelle Fine, City University of New York Graduate School
Community is an important ingredient of successful schools, yet it is a more complex topic than is portrayed in current discourse. In this engaging volume, Patricia Calderwood explores multiple layers of educational communities and the conditions that inspire their resilience and growth. Confronting the inherent fragility of community, she also provides hopeful discussion about the ways communities can become responsive, and subsequently resilient, to vulnerabilities. Using the backdrop of different schools, Calderwood depicts community as a process rather than a commodity and illustrates how notions of community evolve locally and distinctly. Calderwood addresses issues of identity, leadership, voice, and normative forces in the lives of ordinary people as she engages readers in this important and timely analysis.
Patricia Calderwood is an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction at the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions at Fairfield University, in Fairfield, Connecticut.
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