1st Edition

Education and Schooling

By W. Kenneth Richmond Copyright 1975
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

In the early 1970s the crisis in schools, particularly in urban areas, had escalated. At the same time a number of writers had advocated either the abolition or the recasting of the school system as a whole. The late Kenneth Richmond saw these phenomena as symptoms of a struggle towards a much-needed new theory and practice of education. Increasingly, he felt, it is realised that a schooled... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Education and Schooling: What’s the Difference?  3. Education and Schooling: A Spectrum of Opinion  4. The Knowledge Market  5. Learning in the Community: Organizing a School Without Walls  6. The Vision of Edgar Faure  7. Lifelong Learning in an Age of Technology  8. Towards a Generative Theory of Education  9. The Two Cultures and the Information Revolution  10. Beyond Schooling: The Search for a New Paradigm.  References.  Index

Biography

W. Kenneth Richmond