Schools in Transition: Linking Past, Present, and Future in Educational Practice

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School is one of the most focal institutions in modern society. It is largely through the institutionalized forms of education that modern society attempts to secure and maintain its social and economic well-being and its valuable cultural life forms. In addition to this, school is the essential institution through which the future of a society is defined. Thus, at least when understood traditionally as a pedagogical institution, the school stands at the center of historically and socially constructed cultural life forms and at the brink of an unknown future: the determination of that future characterizes the pedagogical task of the school. It naturally ensues then, that modern discourses of the school have always been intertwined with the critical question of how past, present and future can be linked in educational practices so that schools can foster (in ever better ways) the well-being of individuals, societies and humanity. The chapters in this volume, despite the variety of viewpoints, share this critical view. The purpose of the volume is not to offer definite answers; rather it is to stress that to understand the role and functions of school in contemporary society and to orientate its transition, a well-founded critical evaluation of prevailing pedagogical practices and policy trends is required. This evaluation is vital for the future of school and society. Front Matter ....Pages i-vii A Modern Idea of the School (Kimmo Kontio, Eetu Pikkarainen, Pauli Siljander)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-18 A Philosophical School for Our Time (David T. Hansen, Jessica Davis)....Pages 19-33 Axel Honneth on Role, Form and Results of Public Education Revisited (Teemu Hanhela)....Pages 35-52 What are Universities for? (Jani Kukkola)....Pages 53-63 Front Matter ....Pages 65-66 Schools and the New Language of Learning (Jouni Peltonen)....Pages 67-77 The Paradox of Being a Teacher (Daniel Tröhler)....Pages 79-95 School Learning as Human Growth (Eetu Pikkarainen)....Pages 97-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-114 The State, Market and Education (Kimmo Kontio, Maximilian Sailer)....Pages 115-136 Productivity, Effectiveness, Efficiency Basic Concepts of the Economics of Education (Dieter Timmermann)....Pages 137-159 The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice (Henry M. Levin)....Pages 161-188 Front Matter ....Pages 189-190 School in Transition (Pauli Siljander)....Pages 191-212 The Transformation of School in a Changing Society – A German Example (Wolfgang Schönig)....Pages 213-227 “It Takes a Village” – (Catholic) Education in the 21st Century (John Andreas Fuchs)....Pages 229-239 Schooling vis-à-vis Learning (Andrew Stables)....Pages 241-253 School Representation in Curriculum Policies (Alice Casimiro Lopes, Elizabeth Macedo)....Pages 255-269 Front Matter ....Pages 271-272 The History of Education as the History of Writing (Norm Friesen)....Pages 273-287 The Emancipation of Children (Alexander M. Sidorkin)....Pages 289-301 Tensions and Controversies of School Development – Some Remarks (Pauli Siljander, Kimmo Kontio)....Pages 303-312 Back Matter ....Pages 313-319