Schoolishness

Introduction: The Education Gospel and the Deeply Held Structures of Schoolishness
1. Experiencing School: What's the Problem?
2. The Aims and the Ends, Values and Value: From Games, Sorting, and Exchange Value to Learning, Being ,and Use Value
3. Pedagogy and Pedagogizing: From Direct Instruction to Independent Learning
4. Teachers, Students, Classes: From Authorities and Competitors to Communities of Varied Learners
5. Questions: From Compliance, Control, and Evaluation(Authority) to Curiosity, Power, Wonder, andEffervescence (Democracy)
6. Time: From Speed, Uniformity, and Deferral to Need,Variation, and Sufficiency
7. Work, Labor, Play: From Toil and Exchange to Worth,Meaning, and Use
8. Spaces and Places: From Separation to Connection
9. Genres of Consumption: From Scarcity, Artificiality,Constraint to Abundance and Variety
10. Genres of Production: From Artificiality and Controlto Authenticity and Freedom
11. Tech and Media: From Clunky to Vibrant
12. Attending (to) Bodies: From Stillness, Isolation,Normativity, and Control to Action, Connection,Variation, and Agency
13. Selves: From Alienation to Authenticity, Wholeness,and Meaning
14. "The Trees Need Water": Authentic Learning in an Educational Ecosystem
15. Making Schools Less Schoolish: Of Evolutions and Revolutions
Conclusion: Creating the World We Want to Live In