Resumen de Engagement and philosophy
This article explores these two keywords through the approach of placing “school” on a continuum between the two extremes of a transactional, instrumental organisation and an aspirational and transformational community. The variety of stakeholder groups are redefined to include personification of abstract concepts and the model of community is considered including these stakeholders. The hypothesis proposed here is that school as a community can be seen as a verb rather than a noun and the extent to which school must by definition be, or have the form of, an organisation, isseen as a manifestation of the Schopenhauerian will of the community, with the levers of transaction pulled by the Head on behalf of the community. The 1994 UNESCO international conference on education provides a framework for discussion about culture and the purpose of education, which is reconciled with the evolving model described and envisioned in this short essay.
