1st Edition

Democracy, Education and Research The Struggle for Public Life

By John Schostak, Ivor F. Goodson Copyright 2020
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of ‘public impact‘ by rethinking what is meant by ‘public‘ and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research. Focusing on empirical illustrations of the use of research and educational processes in... Read more

Introduction; Chapter One: What’s wrong with democracy at the moment and why it matters for research and education; Part One: What Went Wrong?; Chapter Two: The Challenge for Researchers and Educators; Chapter Three: What is wrong with contemporary practices of social/collective learning?; Chapter Four: The Organisation and Dis-organisation of Power; Chapter Five: Engaging with power through radical research methodologies; Chapter Six: Radical Educational Strategies; End of Part One: Reflections on the Research and Educational Implications of Chapters 1-6; Reflections: Realising the Challenges to Become a Public; Chapter Seven: What might turn social learning into social movements?; Chapter Eight: What is happening today in terms of social learning becoming social movements?; Chapter Nine: How do you get from social movements to public space?; Chapter Ten: Towards the creation of public spaces (All); Chapter Eleven: New Rules for Research, Social Learning and Creating a Socially Just World; End of Part Two: Discussion on the implications for research education; Discussion: The Critical role of publics in realising futures for a better present; Chapter Twelve: Making it Happen; Conclusion: No End; References; Index

Biography

    John Schostak is Emeritus Professor at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metrolpolitan University, UK.

    Ivor Goodson is a Professor of Learning Theory in the Education Research Centre, Brighton University, UK, an International Research Professor at the University of Tallinn, Estonia and a Senior Fellow at the Guerrand Hermes Foundation.