Education for Community Development

Harvard HGSE

An aim of education is to train individuals to achieve personal growth and become a source of social good. However, educational programs also grapple with a difficult social reality - that the processes of modern development often leads to the breakdown of a fundamental unit of our social fabric, the community. What does the breakdown of community imply about the aims of education? Can educational processes reconstitute this social fabric?In this course, we will ask: how can educational…