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Radical Schooling for Democracy: Engaging Philosophy of Education for the Public Good book cover

1st Edition

Radical Schooling for Democracy Engaging Philosophy of Education for the Public Good

By Neil Hooley Copyright 2018
216 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Radical Schooling for Democracy 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... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgements

Dedication: John Dewey

Poem

 

Part 1. Thinking Philosophically

1. Trends and tensions of philosophy and sociology

2. Understandings of epistemology

3. Action theory and theorists

4. Creative democracy, ethics, power and control

 

Part II. Thinking Educationally

1. Education as philosophy of practice

  • Philosophy 1: Education as a knowledge discipline

  • Philosophy 2. Religion, the sacred and profane

  • Philosophy 3. Conservatism, what is or should be

  • Philosophy 4. Neoliberalism, capitalism personified

  • Philosophy 5. Social Democracy, in practice or in name

  • Philosophy 6. Science, explanation or understanding

  • Philosophy 7. Marxism, social class and social division

 

Part III. Thinking Democratically

1. Social class, equity and socio-economic positions

2. Connecting with Indigenous education

3. Teacher education as experience

4.Radical schooling for all

 

References

Index

Biography

Neil Hooley is a Lecturer in the College of Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.

‘Neil Hooley's new book offers a philosophical vision of radical schooling for democracy in terms of criticizing neoliberal and dehumanizing reform of education. It is an outstanding contribution to reconstruct the idea of public education through a comprehensive and fascinating approach to pragmatism and the public good.’- Masamichi Ueno, Professor of Education, Daito Bunka University, Japan

"In sum, Radical Schooling for Democracy engages philosophy of education at an international level, raising important concerns surrounding education within our globalized, neoliberal context. In its best moments, it is rooted in concrete situations and creatively imagines approaches to teacher education." - Jessica Lussier and Samuel D. Rocha, Democracy & Education

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