ABSTRACT
Place, it turns out, is a central component to both diversity and community. The term diversity has gradually come to describe all manner of efforts designed to end America's history of discrimination and oppression toward various minority groups. Alexis de Tocqueville (1956) described much of this in his classic study entitled Democracy in America, originally published in 1836. The individualism of Locke's worldview received even greater legitimation from ideas related to Charles Darwin's great work of modern biology, TheOrigin of Species.. MacIntyre (1984) has been most concerned with the development of moral theory 'n a society dominated by individualist views. Taylor (1989) has been most concerned with the development of modern identity; Walzer, with the distribution of social and economic justice. Improving the nation's citizens, developing healthy communities, promoting an embrace of diverse ways of life and living, these are societal efforts to which schools can make a legitimate, though partial, contribution.
