Document Type
Issue Area Three
Abstract
A community is defined not only by its arbitrary borders but by the institutions, structures, spaces, and social relationships which form and give meaning to what we term as neighborhoods, cities, townships, and villages. A community, no matter how you wish to define it or set its boundaries, is a social place with a history and a future. We may wish to understand it in organic or mechanical terms and models, but it is the social fabric, the weaving of relationships, that give shape to our ways of knowing.
Communities have histories, they evolve, no definition can easily define or encompass its social and cultural dynamics. A community, then, is as we define it, confined by rivers or mountains, streets or bridges, lines drawn upon a piece of paper, or frames of mind that position us in relationship to others and to ourselves.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
64
Last Page
65
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Muffoletto, Robert
(1995)
"Community, Self, Internet,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
3, Article 23.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss3/23
