Education And Community
reviewed by James Scott Johnston
 Title: Education And Community Author(s): Dianne Gereluk Publisher: Continuum, New York ISBN: 0826484662, Pages: 206, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com
There is an abundance of educational literature on the relationship between the liberal and communitarian conceptions of the self, the state, and schools. Since Kenneth Strike introduced Rawls’s political theory to educational theorists and practitioners almost 30 years ago, the amount of scholarship on the precise role and scope of the school as a liberal, political institution has taken on logarithmic proportions. Dianne Gereluk’s book contributes to this scholarship, but does so with a twist, if you will: here, a muscular vision of community is defended from a Rawlsian liberal perspective. This by itself may not seem strange were it not for the fact that most theorists producing this scholarship align themselves on one side or another of the debate. And while Gereluk clearly admits her liberal sympathies (and arguments) throughout, she is unabashed in her validation of a robust community in which schools play a central role.
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