| Description |
1 online resource (127 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Dedication; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Fed Up with Tinkering; What We Already Know: Schools Are Outdated; Children and Youth Are Not Being Well-served: Standardization and Obsessive Testing Causes Damage; Traditional Purposes Reflect an Unproductive Binary of Worker/Citizen; Why Now?; Why Start Over?; 2 From an Equitable Starting Place; Equality of Intelligence; Equipotentiality; Produsage; Mass Collaboration; Spatial Justice; Lunch Is Gross; Freedom Market Project; Store as Heterotopia; Guiding Principles |
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3 Toward Different EndsPurposes of Schooling; The Common Good; Operationalizing the Neoliberal Common Good; Normative Purposes; A New Purpose; 4 Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; Curriculum; "Instruction" and Pedagogy; Assessment; Guiding Principles; 5 Imagine We Climb the Mountain; Imagining the New; Knowledge Producing Schools; What Makes the Argument Plausible?; What We Need to Do Now; References; Index |
| Summary |
Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that is more consistent with contemporary knowledge production processes-one that moves beyond the either/or binary of preparing workers/citizens in a competitive global economy or a democracy, Larson argues that the only real solution is to start over in U.S. education-the purpose of schooling should b |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203118672 |
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9781136310973 |
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1136310975 |
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0203118677 |
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