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Radical education : a critique of freeschooling and deschooling

By Robin Barrow

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3020456 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: Education 134
Pages
207\225
Topic
Education
Time added
2017-04-23 04:40:21
Educational innovations;Free schools

Description

This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day. Two opening chapters set Rousseau’s educational views and arguments in their political perspective, and subject them to an extended critical treatment. Subsequent chapters provide detailed analyses and examination of the ideas of A S Neill, Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer, Charles Weingartner and Neil Postman. Each author is treated separately but certain common themes and ideas are extracted and considered without reference to any particular author. Amongst others, the concepts of nature, learning, hidden curriculum and the relativity of knowledge are examined; at the same time broader arguments about the degree and nature of freedom that should be provided to children, deschooling and assessment are pursued.

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