Forging an Educative Community tells the story of a public school classroom where relations
are fostered to promote democratic participation within intellectual engagement. In forging an
educative community teacher and students develop relations of trust sense-making and
compassionate imagination which in turn engender a sense of belonging all essential elements
of an educative community. This book illustrates the challenges and barriers to forming such a
community in classrooms particularly the underside of a sense of belonging that carries with
it a terror of being transformed - a terror that can subside only with a trust that belonging
will not require us to give up who we are.
