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This essay explores the awareness of the loss of a sense of community at every level in Western societies. Using an incident in a Lisbon subway involving a grandfather and his grandson, I argue the need to move the child away from the “center” and back to his communities. I contest and deconstruct child-centered discourse and affirm the importance of a community discourse for the development of Dewey’s “whole child.” Communities are a common good, complex wholes, ethical sites, places for an intricate world of interactions. Community life provides a high order of moral and intellectual reasoning. The musical metaphor of an orchestra is used to demonstrate the need for a revitalized community where the child is a central part but not at the “center.”
