1st Edition

Antonio Gramsci (Routledge Revivals) Conservative Schooling for Radical Politics

By Harold Entwistle Copyright 1979
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Antonio Gramsci is one of the few Marxist theoreticians to have considered the role and nature of education, yet paradoxically his revolutionary, political and social theory seems at odds with his conservative approach to the content and processes of schooling. This book, originally published in 1979, examines his educational, political and cultural writings in an effort to resolve this... Read more
Part 1:The Schooling of Children  1.1. Introduction  1.2. The Curriculum of the School  1.3. Curriculum and the Sociology of Knowledge  1.4. Curriculum as 'the entire thought of the past  1.5. School Assessment and Examinations  1.6. Education Method: School as Work  1.7. Instruction or Education?  1.8. Authority, Teachers and Teaching  1.9. Education and Fascism  1.10. Politics and Schooling: Correspondence or Contradiction  1.11. The Structure and Organisation of the School System  1.12. Educational Theory as Counter-cyclical  1.13. Schooling: Towards the Education of Adults  Part 2: The Education of Adults  2.1. Political Education as Adult Education  2.2. Education and the Problem of the Intellectuals  2.3. Technical and Vocational Education  Part 3: Theory and Practice in Education  3.1. The Philosophy of Praxis  3.2. Polytechnical Education and the Relationship Between Theory and Practice  3.3. Education and Gramsci's Conception of Practice  3.4. Theory, Practice and the Education of Teachers  3.5. Theory, Practice and the Problem of Relevance.

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Harold Entwistle