SCHOOL AS COMMUNITY -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION I: The School as Community: Extending Our Conceptual Understanding -- 1. The Complexity and Coherence of Educational Communities: An Analysis of the Images that Reflect and Influence Scholarship and Practice by Lynn G. Beck -- 2. Postmodernism and Community in Schools: Unraveling the Paradox by Gail Furman -- 3. The Role of Community in Spiritually Centered Leadership for Justice by Colleen A. Capper, Madeline M. Hafner, and Maureen W. Keyes -- SECTION II: Research on School Community: Focus on Teachers -- 4. Contradictions of School Community in Restructuring Elementary Schools: Lessons from a Case Study by Paul Goldman and Gerald Tindal -- 5. Tensions and Sturggles in Moving Toward a Democratic School Community by Ulrich C. Reitzug and Mary John O'Hair -- 6. Learning from Educators: Insights into Building Communities of Difference by Carolyn M. Shields -- SECTION III: Research on School Community: Focus on Students -- 7. Schools as Communities for Students by Karen Osterman -- 8. Thinking about Community from a Student Perspective by Carolyn M. Shields -- 9. Children with Severe Disabilities in Regular Classrooms: Risk and Opportunity for Creating Inclusive Communities by Charles A. Peck, Chrysan Gallucci, and Debbie Staub -- SECTION IV: Research on School Community: The Ecological Perspective -- 10. The Microecology of Social Capital Formation: Developing Community Beyond the Schoolhouse Door by Hanne B. Mawhinney -- 11. Listening to Communities: An Ecological Perspective on Education and Human Services by Robert G. Croninger and Barbara Finkelstein -- Conclusions: What is Leadership For? by Gail Furman -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.