The ethos of the community has an educative function in school life. Schools should promote the rights and responsibilities inherent within citizenship. Community service is an important part of a child's education in school. A major purpose of the school curriculum is to teach social and political life-skills. Schools should provide an active understanding of the common good.
Religious schools are able to operate a strong version of the communitarian perspective.
Many existing community-based education practices reflect the features of the communitarian perspective. Schools should adopt a more democratic structure of operating. One of the interesting features of this list is the extent to which it connects up with the concerns of educationalists such as Dewey and Lindemann . There are also significant points of departure - particularly in emphasis. Dewey and others, for example, might well argue that the fostering of democracy should be the central focus of education.