Schools As Colonizers : The Deschoolers of the 1960s

ISBN-13: 9783836464628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 140 str.

Kirsten Olson

Opis

In the 1960s and early 70s an influential group of education writers wrote accessibly, for the everyday reader, about the colonizing and radically unequalizing effects of institutionalized education on students and adults. To these critics schools were not benign, apple-on-the-desk acculturating institutions where children could innocently be sent each day to learn the skills they needed to succeed in a meritocratic society. Instead they were organizations designed to colonize, imprint, and shape from within the most vulnerable and least powerful individuals in our culture. This book examines the biographies of six important deschooling critics, their questions about the purposes of education, and the nature of powerful learning in their eyes. The book also asks, what do the deschoolers have to tell us now?

O autorze

Olson, Kirsten, Kirsten Olson is an educational consultant and Visiting Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts. She received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a bachelor\'s degree in English from Vassar College, and is the author of The Wounds of Schooling (Teachers College Press).