Radical Schooling for Democracy - 9781138647169

Taylor & Francis

Radical Schooling for DemocracyEngaging Philosophy of Education for the Public Good\nAuthor(s): Neil Hooley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138647169, 978-1138647169\nSynopsis\nRadical 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 frustrating and alienating for vast numbers of children as they are systematically removed from the big ideas and practices of history and knowledge of which they and their communities are a part and are instead inducted into a technical and superficial rationality of human existence. \n\nRadical Schooling for Democracy begins with a progressive and cont.