ABSTRACT
The more mature community embraces the community of humanity, the community of life, and the community of being, and finds through that bonding an increased wisdom and strength that are the seeds of its own transformation. In concert with teachers, parents, and students, cultivators of community engage in the struggle and pain of calling forth the larger, more generous, more mature instincts. The concept of this more mature community requires a rethinking of our notions about citizenship and concomitantly of our notions about education for citizenship. Citizenship should be a proactive involvement in the life of the community—an activity that seeks to give back to the community what the community has already given to the individual: life, talents, capabilities, energy, and love. The curriculum of community explicitly attends to the institutionalization of communal self-governance, thereby sewing the seeds for more adult participation in a democratic community.
