Radical Schooling for Democracy
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<p><em>Radical Schooling for Democracy</em> proposes that formal education around the world has a serious philosophical weakness: as the ideology of neoliberalism increasingly dominates economic and as a consequence educational and social life formal education has adopted a narrow rational and economic purpose for all students. Hooley argues that under these circumstances schooling is inherently frustrating and alienating for vast numbers of children as they are systematically removed from the big ideas and practices of history and knowledge of which they and their communities are a part and are instead inducted into a technical and superficial rationality of human existence. </p><p>Radical Schooling for Democracy begins with a progressive and contemporary overview of philosophical and sociological thought during the European Enlightenment and identifies a framework of understanding that is extremely weak in education. This action framework of integrated philosophy sociology and epistemology generates an ‘action theory’ that not only accounts for human progress but has the potential to radically change the nature of schooling. A number of theorists who generally support a ‘theory of action’ is considered ranging from Aristotle Marx Dewey and Freire to Habermas. From this analysis the curriculum pedagogical assessment and research constructs of schooling are detailed such that a coherent and integrated model of education as an attribute of being human can be articulated rather than being seen as a disparate derivative from other disciplines. </p><p>With its coverage of internationally relevant issues this book will be essential reading for academics graduate students policymakers and researchers in education philosophy sociology and epistemology as well as teachers and pre-service teachers.</p>
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