This book is a rallying cry to teachers at a time when many in the profession feel profoundly pessimistic about their work and the future of education. In this uplifting book, David Halpin suggests ways of putting the hope back into education, exploring the value of and need for utopian thinking in discussions of the purpose of education and school policy. David Halpin does not attempt to predict the future of schooling. Rather, he discusses the attitude educators should adopt about its reform and the prospect of educational change. He suggests that educators need to adopt a militant...
This book is a rallying cry to teachers at a time when many in the profession feel profoundly pessimistic about their work and the future of education...
Set within the doom and gloom currently surrounding education, this text argues that we need utopias in education today. The central argument of the book is that utopias have the capacity to project a special degree of optimism - a measure of hope that will act as a motivation to action as well as providing direction to it. The author contends that we need to adopt utopian realism, which is a form of utopianism which seeks to combine the capacity to be experimental and innovative with a sensitive appreciation of the limits and potentialities for social change.
Set within the doom and gloom currently surrounding education, this text argues that we need utopias in education today. The central argument of the b...
The methodology researching of educational policy is the subject of this book. It takes a behind the scenes look at the conducting, the analysis and the interpretation of research carried out into educational policy issues revolving around the 1988 Education Reform Act.
The methodology researching of educational policy is the subject of this book. It takes a behind the scenes look at the conducting, the analysis and t...
In this original book, David Halpin argues that an understanding of the Romantic roots of progressive education is a necessary condition for restoring to critical consciousness some important, but currently neglected, basic ideas about teaching and learning - ideas about the importance of imaginative experience and its promotion; ideas about the high status that should be conferred on childhood; ideas about the importance of love and friendship in schooling; ideas about the positive role that heroism can play in making learning more effective; and ideas about viewing teaching as a critical...
In this original book, David Halpin argues that an understanding of the Romantic roots of progressive education is a necessary condition for restor...
