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%NEED FOR COMMUNITY 800827
The need for community is as much a cause of looking
at the world in a common way as a common world-view is a
cause of community. Humans need community. People
differ. People with common characteristics find community
which they need by focusing upon the development of a
common world-view. The need for community is the
motivating force. The common world-view is a means of
achieving community. The achievement of a common world-
view is an adjunct to the achievement of community. The
process of the development of a common world-view cannot
be fully understood without recognition of the universal
need of humans for community, integrity of personal
relationship webs. The process of sharing perceptual
frameworks is central to the formation of community and a
means to the formation of community. That which
undermines the process of sharing undermines the process
of formation of community. The central process is just as
much that of sharing as that of the development of a
coherent world-view. Usually the focus is upon the
structure of the world-view, not upon the process of
sharing. It is usually assumed that motivation is
generated in the interest in the world-view, rather than
generated by the desire to be a participant in the process
of sharing, a participant in human community.
Education is often perceived as a means of
transmitting correct world-views. Such a view places an
emphasis upon the content of that which is shared and its
practical importance, not upon the importance of the
community which is created and celebrated in the process
of sharing. Rarely is the educational community perceived
as the legitimate goal of the activity; the transmission
of knowledge and skills is the justification of the
community in the common view. Community must be justified
in terms of its fruits, rather than community being viewed
as the goal which is achieved through the process of
transmitting knowledge and skills.
Education is often perceived as the means to
promoting conventional behavior in the interests of
preserving community, rather than as a process of sharing
unconventional perceptions and experiences as a means to
creating new commonalties out of diversities. Both
perceptions focus upon community, but the consequences are
quite different; imprisoning and liberating.
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