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Indoctrination

The medieval in our schools: how our schools owe so much less to the nineteenth century factory

The medieval in our schools: how our schools owe so much less to the nineteenth century factory

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An EPUB version of this article can be downloaded here Our educational problems are wrongly attributed to the 19th Century industrial factory. The introduction of universal, compulsory state schooling was more directly political – much more about engineering populations into compliant national identity. The template was the medieval school – a factory system indifferent to […]

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An EPUB version of this article can be downloaded here Our educational problems are wrongly attributed to the 19th Century industrial factory. The introduction of universal, compulsory state schooling was more directly political – much more about engineering populations into compliant national identity. The template was the medieval school – a factory system indifferent to

An “educational” system at odds with the educational: The incompatibility of purpose

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The “logic” of conventional schooling is completely at odds with the requirements of education, and fundamentally unethical. School is about agendas others have for learners – not for their own sake

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The “logic” of conventional schooling is completely at odds with the requirements of education, and fundamentally unethical. School is about agendas others have for learners – not for their own sake

The vacuum at the centre of our “educational” thinking

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The vacuum at the centre of our “educational” thinking   Neglecting the job of equipping learners to develop worthwhile lives that are their own creates an educational vacuum – a vulnerability at precisely the point where they need most strength and power. This space is then available for the most significant kinds of indoctrination –

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The vacuum at the centre of our “educational” thinking   Neglecting the job of equipping learners to develop worthwhile lives that are their own creates an educational vacuum – a vulnerability at precisely the point where they need most strength and power. This space is then available for the most significant kinds of indoctrination –

The justification of education: a Rawlsian interpretation

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  The justification of education:a Rawlsian interpretation John Rawls’s “Original Position” offers more than a decision procedure for justifying principles of justice, as he intended. It enables a unique way of understanding and justifying education. It may help us to get past our educational myopia; of education being no more than schooling and formal teaching,

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  The justification of education:a Rawlsian interpretation John Rawls’s “Original Position” offers more than a decision procedure for justifying principles of justice, as he intended. It enables a unique way of understanding and justifying education. It may help us to get past our educational myopia; of education being no more than schooling and formal teaching,

Indoctrination and education

An introduction to indoctrination

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An introduction to the idea of “indoctrination” “Indoctrination” was developed by philosophers of education as an educational concept twice in the Twentieth Century, and its development continues. It stands as the opposite of education as injustice stands to justice. To understand education and its problems – particularly what is at stake – we need to

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An introduction to the idea of “indoctrination” “Indoctrination” was developed by philosophers of education as an educational concept twice in the Twentieth Century, and its development continues. It stands as the opposite of education as injustice stands to justice. To understand education and its problems – particularly what is at stake – we need to

The meaning of education

A liberal education – exit stage right. Part I: the attack

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The liberal education tradition has been largely destroyed by neo-conservative assumptions. Identified with a range of academic disciplines, and pursued for its own sake, it has suffered from association with the life-style of the European aristocracy, the former leisured elite. Despite this, it had important functions in enabling a challenging of inherited beliefs and assumptions,

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The liberal education tradition has been largely destroyed by neo-conservative assumptions. Identified with a range of academic disciplines, and pursued for its own sake, it has suffered from association with the life-style of the European aristocracy, the former leisured elite. Despite this, it had important functions in enabling a challenging of inherited beliefs and assumptions,

Held hostage to our talents

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[starbox id=RGO] Held hostage to our talents When I was a graduate student, I resolved my lodging arrangements by being a houseparent in an arts academy located on the university campus. The academy took talented high school students on scholarship and gave them an opportunity to develop their performing art. Principally, it was a dance

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[starbox id=RGO] Held hostage to our talents When I was a graduate student, I resolved my lodging arrangements by being a houseparent in an arts academy located on the university campus. The academy took talented high school students on scholarship and gave them an opportunity to develop their performing art. Principally, it was a dance

The one good thing about indoctrination

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The one good thing about indoctrination In the early years of working with this theory I gave little attention to working out educational content or process in much detail. Having made the central educational distinctions, and having laid out the justification in terms of respect for persons, I would spend the bulk of my courses

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The one good thing about indoctrination In the early years of working with this theory I gave little attention to working out educational content or process in much detail. Having made the central educational distinctions, and having laid out the justification in terms of respect for persons, I would spend the bulk of my courses