What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental
values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our
image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing
need to develop a more just, creative and sustainable democratic
society affect our responses to these questions?
Addressing these fundamental issues, Fielding and Moss contest
the current mainstream dominated by markets and competition,
instrumentality and standardisation, managerialism and technical
practice. They argue instead for a radical education with democracy
as a fundamental value, care as a central ethic, a person-centred
education that is education in the broadest sense, and an image of
a child rich in potential. Radical education, they say, should be
practiced in the 'common school', a school for all children in its
local catchment area, age-integrated, human scale, focused on depth
of learning and based on team working. A school understood as a
public space for all citizens, a collective workshop of many
purposes and possibilities, and a person-centred learning
community, working closely with other schools and with local
authorities. The book concludes by examining how we might bring
such transformation about.
Written by two of the leading experts in the fields of early
childhood and secondary education, the book covers a wide vista of
education for children and young people. Vivid examples from
different stages of education are used to explore the full meaning
of radical democratic education and the common school and how they
can work in practice. It connects rich thinking and experiences
from the past and present to offer direction and hope for the
future. It will be of interest and inspiration to all who care
about education - teachers and students, academics and policy
makers, parents and politicians.
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