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Schooling as Violence: How Schools Harm Pupils and Societies book cover

1st Edition

Schooling as Violence How Schools Harm Pupils and Societies

By Clive Harber Copyright 2005
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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Asking fundamental and often uncomfortable questions about the nature and purposes of formal education, this book explores the three main ways of looking at the relationship between formal education, individuals and society: * that education improves society * that education reproduces society exactly as it is * that education makes society worse and harms individuals. Whilst educational... Read more
1. Is Formal Education Always Good for You?
2. Authoritarian Schooling
3. Schooling and Violence
4. Control, Surveillance, Reproduction and Perpetration : Inhuman Capital Theory
5. Schooling as Terrorism : Physical punishment
6. Schooling and Learning to Hate the 'Other'
7. Schooling as Sexual Abuse
8. Schooling Can make You Ill : Stress, Anxiety and Examinations
9. Learning to Kill : Schooling and Militarisation
10. Education for Democracy and Peace

Biography

Clive Harber is Head of the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. He has had a distinguished career in education and written very many papers, chapters and books in the field.

Times Educational Supplement Book of the Week

'For anyone interested in school systems, this book is essential reading ... [It] is stirring stuff for those who believe that the current mass-schooling system is fundamentally damaging to children's human rights.' - Terri Dowty, 0-19

'Throughout the volume, Harber adopts a world-encompassing perspective, citing examples from a wide variety of nations to illustrate the ubiquitous nature of schooling violence.' - Educational Review

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