Abstract
tute the learning communities that schools attempt to foster. Because of this responsibility, educators are becoming more aware of the demographic changes communities are experiencing. The statistics that follow illustrate these changes and alert us to the need for rethinking what was taken for granted about the social context of schooling and the ways teachers are prepared to understand and take part, with students, families, and communities,'in the building and shaping of deliberative democracy. Ethnic minorities are increasing faster than the majority population (Baca-Zinn & Eitzen, 1996). For example, according to the 1995 Bureau of the Census report, by the year 2000, 11.3 percent of the population in this country will be from Hispanic, Latino/a, Chicana/o backgrounds, and 12.8 percent of the population will be from African American backgrounds (cited in Baca-Zinn & Eitzen, 1996). The same document reports that 15.1 percent of the population is living in poverty; 22
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