(article ) What is Education?

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Our educational bad faith

Our educational bad faith

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Our  educational bad faith What we accept as “education” through conventional schooling does great harm. This has been widely known for over fifty years – not just to the researchers who have failed to speak out, but to private citizens as well. Yet we continue to do nothing about it, not even to encourage the

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Our  educational bad faith What we accept as “education” through conventional schooling does great harm. This has been widely known for over fifty years – not just to the researchers who have failed to speak out, but to private citizens as well. Yet we continue to do nothing about it, not even to encourage the

Education for good living in the educational ecosystem

Education and the educational ecosystem

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Education and the educational ecosystem It is a commonplace to say that education should be about enabling learners to live worthwhile lives. What that would have to involve is never extensively explored, and this lack of a benchmark would help to explain why the idea of education-as-usual has no competition. This article is an introductory

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Education and the educational ecosystem It is a commonplace to say that education should be about enabling learners to live worthwhile lives. What that would have to involve is never extensively explored, and this lack of a benchmark would help to explain why the idea of education-as-usual has no competition. This article is an introductory

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