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| Autor/in | Gatto, John Taylor |
|---|---|
| Titel | Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. |
| Quelle | (1992), (104 Seiten) |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
| ISBN | 0-86571-231-X |
| Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Change Agents; Change Strategies; Compulsory Education; Conformity; Conservatism; Criticism; Educational Change; Educational Practices; Elementary Secondary Education; Futures (of Society); Government School Relationship; Hidden Curriculum; Privatization; Public Schools; Teaching Methods |
| Abstract | The five essays in this book criticize the "deadening heart" of compulsory state schooling, described as a series of assumptions and structures that stamp out the self-knowledge, curiosity, concentration and solitude essential to learning--a system wherein education and schooling are mutually exclusive terms. The book argues that between schooling and television, children have little time to learn for themselves--about the community they live in, or the lives they might lead; instead, they are schooled to obey orders and become smoothly functioning cogs in the industrial machine. It is suggested that independent study, community service, large doses of solitude, and a variety of different apprenticeships with adults in all walks of life are keys to helping children break the thrall of a conforming society. Some form of free market system in public schooling is proposed as the likeliest place to look for answers--a free market where family schools, entrepreneurial schools, religious schools, crafts schools, and farm schools, would exist in profusion to compete with compulsory government monopoly mass-schooling. (LL) |
| Anmerkungen | New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143 (paperback, ISBN-0-86571-231-X: $9.95 each plus $2.50 postage and handling for the first copy and $0.75 for each additional copy; hardcover, ISBN-0-86571-230-1). |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2004/1/01 |
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