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Radical Education and the Common School - Foundations and Futures of Education
Author: Michael Fielding, Peter Moss

'Every now and then there comes a book on education to make the blood course through your veins and steel your resolve that 'It doesn't have to be like it is'; you know after reading it that something else better is possible. Well here's another. Written with passion and incisiveness in equal measure, it will lift the spirits and re-energise all... more » who are engaged in education not simply as a means of earning a living but as a way of changing the world for the better' - Tim Brighouse (formerly Chief Education Officer in Birmingham and London Schools Commissioner; Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education University of London). What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic society affect our responses to these questions? Addressing these fundamental issues, "Radical Education and the Common School: a Democratic Alternative" contests the current mainstream dominated by markets and competition, instrumentality and standardisation, managerialism and technical practice. The book argues instead for a new public education, showing it is possible to think and practice differently. There are alternatives. The authors argue for a radical education with democracy as a fundamental value, care as a central ethic, a person-centred education that is education in the broadest sense, and the image of the rich child. Radical education should be practiced in the 'common school', a school for all children in its local catchment area, age-integrated, human scale, focused on depth of learning and based on team working. A school understood as a public space for all citizens, a collective workshop of many purposes and possibilities, and a person-centred learning community, working closely with other schools and with local authorities. The book concludes by examining how we might bring such transformation about. Written by two of the leading experts in the fields of early childhood and secondary education, the book covers a wide vista of education for children and young people. Vivid examples from a range of stages of education are used to explore the full meaning of radical democratic education and the common school and how they can work in practice. It connects rich thinking and experiences from the past and present to offer direction and hope for the future. It will be of interest and inspiration to all who care about education - teachers and students, academics and policy makers, parents and politicians.

ISBN-13: 9780415498289
ISBN-10: 0415498287
Publication Date: 1/10/2011
Pages: 162
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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