The Human and Intellectual Cost of High Performance Schooling
On the Necessity of Person-Centred Education
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2021
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-415-96248-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Michael Fielding develops a searching critique of key elements of education policy and practice, including personalization, target-setting, impact, competition, empowerment, inspection and accountability, and leadership and management. He goes beyond critique to offer positive alternatives, not only to these topics, but also others, such as the challenges and prospects of collaborative work between teachers and other professionals and stakeholders in a range of fields, the nature of community, person-centered education, and the place and possibility of radical approaches to education and schooling within the state sector. This book goes to the heart of dilemmas that have not only faced western democratic societies in one form or another for well over the past 100 years, but that are likely to continue to test our resolve and our imaginative resources for an equivalent amount of time in the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-96248-3 (9780415962483)
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Michael Fielding is Professor of Education at the University of Sussex.
Content
Chapter 1: On the Practical Necessity of Philosophy
Section I: Oppositional Interventions: philosophy as a subversive activity
Chapter 2: Against Competition: in praise of a malleable analysis + the subversiveness of philosophy
Chapter 3: Empowerment: Emancipation or Enervation?
Chapter 4: Target Setting, Policy Pathology & Student Perspectives:
Learning to Labour in New Times
Chapter 5: OfSTED, Inspection & the Betrayal of Democracy
Section II: Collaboration, Collegiality: What's in a Word?
Chapter 6: Radical Collegiality: Affirming Teaching as an Inclusive Professional Practice
Chapter 7: Replies and Responses
Chapter 8: Prolegomena to a Theory of Human AssociationSection III: On the Necessity of Community
Chapter 9: Learning Organisation or Learning Community? A Critique of Senge
Chapter 10: Community, Philosophy & Education Policy: Against Effectiveness Ideology & the Immiseration of Contemporary Schooling
Chapter 11: Leadership, Personalisation & High Performance Schooling: Naming the New Totalitarianism
Chapter 12: Philosophy and the End of Educational Organisation: persons, purposes and the retrieval of human being
Chaper 13: Alex Bloom: Pioneer of radical state education
Section IV: Hang On A Minute: Pricking the Pretensions of Orthodoxy
Chapter 14: Delivery, Packages and the Denial of Learning
Chapter 15: The Impact of ImpactChapter 16: The Poverty and Promise of Personalization
Chapter 17: Putting Hands Around the Flame: Reclaiming the radical tradition in state education
Chapter 18: What's in a word?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Section I: Oppositional Interventions: philosophy as a subversive activity
Chapter 2: Against Competition: in praise of a malleable analysis + the subversiveness of philosophy
Chapter 3: Empowerment: Emancipation or Enervation?
Chapter 4: Target Setting, Policy Pathology & Student Perspectives:
Learning to Labour in New Times
Chapter 5: OfSTED, Inspection & the Betrayal of Democracy
Section II: Collaboration, Collegiality: What's in a Word?
Chapter 6: Radical Collegiality: Affirming Teaching as an Inclusive Professional Practice
Chapter 7: Replies and Responses
Chapter 8: Prolegomena to a Theory of Human AssociationSection III: On the Necessity of Community
Chapter 9: Learning Organisation or Learning Community? A Critique of Senge
Chapter 10: Community, Philosophy & Education Policy: Against Effectiveness Ideology & the Immiseration of Contemporary Schooling
Chapter 11: Leadership, Personalisation & High Performance Schooling: Naming the New Totalitarianism
Chapter 12: Philosophy and the End of Educational Organisation: persons, purposes and the retrieval of human being
Chaper 13: Alex Bloom: Pioneer of radical state education
Section IV: Hang On A Minute: Pricking the Pretensions of Orthodoxy
Chapter 14: Delivery, Packages and the Denial of Learning
Chapter 15: The Impact of ImpactChapter 16: The Poverty and Promise of Personalization
Chapter 17: Putting Hands Around the Flame: Reclaiming the radical tradition in state education
Chapter 18: What's in a word?
Notes
Bibliography
Index