CHILD REARING AND EDUCATION

Child Rearing and Education

Child Rearing and Education

The rearing and education of children are very public and very personal endeavors and they are critical to any culture's survival and development. It is no surprise, then, that children offer unique opportunities and challenges within the experimental cultures of intentional communities. This entry will explore some of the issues surrounding children's education and social relationships within both historical and contemporary intentional communities. (Kantar, 1972)

Although in Israel the kibbutzim experimented with communal child rearing, in the United States there was little institutionalized communal child rearing, let alone educational programs, within intentional ...