The communal unit from which a great many basic human needs must be met is a fluid, family-oriented institution such as the local parish rather than a corporate institution such as the modern school. Experiments in building partnerships between these potentially complementary institutions are necessary. (Author/IRT)

Proposes some educational objectives that offer direction for educational leadership while providing a constructive avenue for other institutions, agencies, and individuals to have a say in the schooling of children. (Author/WM)

The educative community develops and mobilizes all resources, both human and physical, throughout the community in the development of human potential. The assumption that underpins the educative community is that all people are teachers and all are learners. (Author)

Education consists of three important facets: reflection, action, and systematic instruction. Various mixtures of these components should be available to meet the needs of persons at the various stages of life, of persons in different groups, and of persons in different types of communities. (Author/WM)

Topics addressed include the social changes affecting the relationship between school and community, learning from television, objectives for schools, and the roles of the parent and the teacher in the educational development of the child. (WM)

A new relationship between the school and the larger society is needed. The various programs such as schools without walls, community schools, and community use of schools are all indicators of the direction to be followed. (Author/WM)

What Cremin does not deal with at all is precisely what we would all gain by the right kind of change. We need leadership that will support us in the acceptance of community as a value; community is the curriculum. (Author/IRT)

Discusses four educational philosophies and how they affect education in this country and in developing countries, and then discusses the role of nonschool influences on education. (IRT)

The villain that prevents people from building a sense of community is themselves; their ambivalence about the community and their wish not to get too close to each other. (Author/EA)