Community, Hierarchy and Open Education (RLE Edu L) Routledge Library Editions: Education Series
Auteur : Easthope Gary
The book describes the English school, especially the secondary school, as a hierarchical community in which the head-teacher (principal) is an autocratic ruler. After explaining how that particular organisation of the school developed historically from the market situation faced by the English public (i.e. private) schools in the developing industrial society of the nineteenth century it provides empirical evidence demonstrating that the hierarchies of knowledge, teachers and students that developed then were still in place when the book was published in 1975. They are still present today.
It also looks at the challenges to the school as a hierarchical community presented by the ideologies of deschooling, progressive education and open education. Finally, it provides an explanation of why these ideologies were never put into practice in English schools despite some pioneering exemplars.
Although first published over thirty-five years ago the issues examined in it raise questions that are still central to education today:
Does size of school affect the commitment of teachers to the school, their colleagues and their students?
How can the teaching staff be organised in a school? Do all need to work to the same ends? What is the role of leadership from the head-teacher (principal) in this?
Is it possible to have a curriculum that is open without losing rigour? What should be the relationship between using local community knowledge and the educational wish to extend students? horizons?
The result is a short, nuanced, and densely argued text that demands thought and reflection from any contemporary educator.
Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Community. 1. Three Conceptions of Community. 2. The School as a ‘Hierarchical Community’. 3. The Sovereign Head. Part 2: Hierarchy. 4. Four ideologies Against Hierarchy. 5. The Reality of Hierarchy. Part 3: Open Education. 6. Open Education. 7. The Open School. Bibliography.
Date de parution : 12-2011
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Community, Hierarchy and Open Education (RLE Edu L) :
Mots-clés :
hierarchical; contract; secondary; modern; school; comprehensive; mechanical; solidarity; organic; professional; RLE; Upper Streams; Differential Importance; Feedback Organisational System; Progressive Education Ideologies; Secondary Modern Schools; Lower Class Pupils; Hierarchical Community; Clean Slate; Boundary Transcendence; Social Class Hierarchies; Education System; Contract Community; Ability Hierarchy; Feedback Organisation; USA; Kob; Comprehensive Ideology; Open Education; Knowledge Hierarchy; Standardise IQ Test; Hightown Grammar; Weak Framing; Mechanical Solidarity; Ex-grammar School Teachers