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This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a 'new publicness' of education.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Publicness of Education 2. The ‘Publicness’ of Primary Education in Ireland: Tracing its Historical Lineage 3. The Forgotten Language of Public Education: From Hope to Equality 4. Curriculum: The Great Public Project 5. ‘Publicness’ in Pedagogical Thinking 6. A New Publicness for Early Childhood Education and Care in Ireland 7. Claiming a New Public Education for Children with Special Educational Needs 8. New Modes of Marginalisation: Teachers’ Ways of Knowing Themselves 9. ‘Among Others’: Reinventing Initial Professional Education with Student Teachers and Youth Workers 10. Public Parents: Reclaiming Publicness of Education in the New Tyrannies 11. Whose School is it Anyway? On the Insistence of Education and the Need for the Emancipation of the School 12. Expanding the Publicness of Education: Worlding the World in a Time of Climate Emergency 13. Conclusions: The New Publicness of Education
About the author
Carl Anders Säfström is Professor of Educational Research and Director of the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland.
Summary
This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a ‘new publicness’ of education.
