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Education and Schooling (Paperback)
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Education and Schooling (Paperback)
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In the early 1970s the crisis in schools, particularly in urban
areas, had escalated. At the same time a number of writers had
advocated either the abolition or the recasting of the school
system as a whole. The late Kenneth Richmond saw these phenomena as
symptoms of a struggle towards a much-needed new theory and
practice of education. Increasingly, he felt, it is realised that a
schooled society is not synonymous with an educative society, and
that learning which stops at the age of sixteen and which makes the
learner the submissive receiver of instruction and training is
simply inadequate in an age of technology. The 'generative theory'
of education outlined in this book, originally published in 1975,
would conceive of the learner as the controlling agent in a network
of educational resources, and of education as a lifelong process.
Learning can no longer be confined within the frames and
classifications imposed upon it by traditional pedagogy. Recent
research evidence indicates that the importance attached to formal
schooling is greatly exaggerated and that the financial and other
resources devoted to the expansion of so-called educational
services are largely wasted. There is a need, the author stresses,
for a much wider definition of education - one that would recognise
the validity of the numerous skills acquired outside the classroom
(at home, in the peer group, at the work-place) and would
deliberately foster a 'school without walls' policy, whereby
community institutions and organizations could be used as learning
environments. Only by taking steps in this direction, he believes,
can we overcome the apparently intractable problems of the schools
today.
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