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Teaching The Commons Paul Theobald

Teaching The Commons By Paul Theobald

Teaching The Commons by Paul Theobald


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This book examines philosophical assumptions and charts their evolution into conventional wisdom about how human beings should meet their needs, govern themselves, and educate their children. It examines how policies emanating from the assumptions have slowly eroded vitality of rural communities.

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Teaching The Commons: Place, Pride, And The Renewal Of Community by Paul Theobald

Reaching all the way back to the classical and medieval past, Teaching the Commons chronicles ideas and resulting policies that have shaped contemporary rural life and living in much of the industrial West. The book examines philosophical assumptions and charts their evolution into conventional wisdom about how human beings should meet their needs, govern themselves, and educate their children. Further, this book examines how policies emanating from these assumptions have slowly eroded the vitality of rural communities, finding that if there is sufficient interest in saving what is left of rural America, an educational agenda at the local level needs to be embraced by America's rural schools.Using concrete ideas generated in rural schools across the country, Teaching the Commons demonstrates that it is possible to simultaneously revitalize rural schools and communities. Through concerted curricular and pedagogical attention to place?the immediate locality?schools can contribute to rebuilding community in rural America on an educational foundation.Arguing that vital, self-governing communities rather than self-interested individuals represent the greatest hope for American democracy, Teaching the Commons lays out an institutional foundation that would turn the cultivation of civic virtue into an educational goal every bit as important and attainable as education for success in the economic market.

About Paul Theobald

Paul Theobald is director of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse. He was formerly coordinator of the Program for Rural School and Community Renewal at South Dakota State University at Brookings.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The Creation of Community from a Historical Perspective -- Intradependence -- Cyclic Time -- The Avoidance of Risk -- Public Policy and the Subordination of Community -- The Deserted Village: A European Prelude -- The American Countryside and the Dynamics of Acquisition -- The American Countryside and the Dynamics of Dispossession -- Education and the Renewal of Community -- Starting the Conversation -- Place-Conscious Elementary Classrooms -- Place-Conscious Secondary Classrooms -- Conclusion

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CIN0813323029VG
9780813323022
0813323029
Teaching The Commons: Place, Pride, And The Renewal Of Community by Paul Theobald
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
19970321
195
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