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EDUCATION – as if our lives depended on it

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Chapter 20: Education as procedural

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Chapter 20: Education as Procedural Educational policy-making, planning and assessment should be procedural. It should not be about specifying content or outcomes, except in the most general terms. If we intend to respect learners for the self-determining people they are entitled to become, we should not be trying to settle their beliefs or understandings, but […]

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Chapter 20: Education as Procedural Educational policy-making, planning and assessment should be procedural. It should not be about specifying content or outcomes, except in the most general terms. If we intend to respect learners for the self-determining people they are entitled to become, we should not be trying to settle their beliefs or understandings, but

Chapter 21: It can’t be done

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Chapter 21: The denial of education It is often assumed that there is no alternative to conventional schooling. The problem is not practicality, but lack of will and imagination. We fear genuine education and assume that the “powers that be” would never allow a thinking population. We are captive of ancient, pre-democratic fears, and of

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Chapter 21: The denial of education It is often assumed that there is no alternative to conventional schooling. The problem is not practicality, but lack of will and imagination. We fear genuine education and assume that the “powers that be” would never allow a thinking population. We are captive of ancient, pre-democratic fears, and of