PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bookbinder, Stephen
TI  - Educational Goals and Schooling in a Therapeutic Community
AID  - 10.17763/haer.45.1.p3647747wp654425
DP  - 1975 Apr 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 71--94
VI  - 45
IP  - 1
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/45/1/71.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/45/1/71.full
SO  - herp1975 Apr 01; 45
AB  - This article examines a therapeutic community for the rehabilitation of drug addicts run by Marathon House, Inc. To aid the often difficult transition from community to society, a school program was introduced. The author, selected as the first teacher, describes the problems faced by the organization and its residents, who believe in the values of a highly structured, supportive community, yet who must be responsible to a society that does not share these values. The author terms this the corporate-communal dilemma, and he uses the introduction of the school program to discuss how the organization and individuals in it tried to cope with this dilemma.