ABSTRACT
The term ‘community’ offers a view of a classroom or of a school which highlights the forms of relationship in that collective. One of the difficulties with the term, however, is that it never seems to be used unfavourably. Further, it can be used in a way which lacks detail. On these occasions it carries a diffuse warm glow. I find non-specific and romantic uses of the term lack credibility: they paint a picture where goals are non-problematic, relations are always good, and so on – the idyll.
