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A well-documented case for how integrated, holistic, and democratic education can actually be achieved.
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Bertram C. Bruce is currently a Professor Emeritus in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. His work contributes to a tradition of democratic education, asking “How can we guide the educational enterprise by an ethical vision, not simply a technocratic one of transmitting isolated facts and skills?” His career combines a philosophical perspective with passionate work directly with communities in the US and many other countries throughout the world.
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A well-documented case for how integrated, holistic, and democratic education can actually be achieved.
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Bruce argues for a conception of school as embedded within, and an integral component of, the communities in which we live.
Bruce suggests “If learning is truly open to the world, the teacher doesn't have to, cannot, know it all. Instead, she or he becomes a fellow explorer, possibly a knowledgeable guide, but not the final answer to anything.”
Bruce is an artful questioner and Education’s Ecosystem: Learning Through Life tackles many questionable assumptions on education. It could easily be titled ‘questions for educators - other ways of thinking about school and community’.
Bruce argues consistently that education happens in the community. He takes us beyond the near and the obvious. We are presented, quite literally, with a global perspective, an ecosystem of education that may be embraced and nurtured for learning about the world.
