Radical Equality in Education - Starting Over in U.s. Schooling

Acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling and articulates theoretical, curricular, pedagogical, and assessment principles that frame a real plan to start over in American education from preschool through higher education.

List of contents

Foreword, Kris Gutierrez
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: 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What We Already Know: Schools are Outdated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?
Chapter Two: From an Equitable Starting Place
Equality of Intelligence
Equipotentiality
Produsage
Mass collaboration
Spatial Justice
Lunch Is Gross
Freedom Market Project
Guiding principles
Chapter Three: Toward Different Ends
Purposes of Schooling
The Common Good
Operationalizing the Neoliberal Common Good
Normative purposes
A New Purpose
Chapter Four: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Curriculum
"Instruction" and Pedagogy
Assessment
Guiding Principles
Chapter Five: Imagine We Climb the Mountain
Imagining the New
Knowledge Producing Schools
What Makes the Argument Plausible?
What We Need to Do Now
References

About the author

Joanne Larson is Michael W. Scandling Professor of Education, University of Rochester, Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, USA.

Summary

Acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling and articulates theoretical, curricular, pedagogical, and assessment principles that frame a real plan to start over in American education from preschool through higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Larson, Joanne (University of Rochester Larson, Larson Joanne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2014
• EAN: 9780415528030
• ISBN: 978-0-415-52803-0
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational strategies and policy