| Subjects In History,
Rather Than Merely Its Objects Community cultural development practice is based on the understanding that culture is the crucible in which human resilience, creativity and autonomy are forged. As everyone knows, an unexamined life is indeed possible: any of us might move through our lives in a trance of passivity, acted upon but never acting as free beings. The root idea of community cultural development is the imperative to fully inhabit our human lives, bringing to consciousness the values and choices that animate our communities and thus equipping ourselves to act — to paraphrase Paulo Freire — as subjects in history, rather than merely its objects. Iraqis
representing the four main ethnic groups, Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans and Assyrians,
work together to vote in committees for twenty-four members of an interim
city council in the city of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq on May 24, 2003. ©AP/Wide
World Photo/Brennan Linsley, via U.S. Department of State. Text by Don Adams
and Arlene Goldbard, from their book, "Community, Culture and Globalization."
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