(B)othering Education: An Autobiography of Alternatives

Authors

  • Ian Stronach Liverpool John Moores University

Keywords:

Educational alternatives, theory, philosophy, educational philosophy, progressive education, alternative education,

Abstract

I need to come clean. Having been invited by the Editors to help launch the journal with a piece about Summerhill School, I was delayed by another journal article whose timely publication would aid our Research Excellence Framework submission. Thus was I once again brought low by the Audit Culture. It’s a true story, but also a parable - progressive intentions subverted by a reactionary regime, but for whose “self-regulating” efficacy I have to take responsibility...

Author Biography

Ian Stronach, Liverpool John Moores University

Ian Stronach is Professor of Education Research and Co-Director of the Centre for Educational Research (CERES) at Liverpool John Moores University. He was involved as an expert witness and alternative inspector in the Summerhill/Ofsted court battle.

His recent journal publications address teacher education, alternative education, professionalism, and methodological and theoretical issues.

See: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ECL/122545.htm

References

Borges, J.-L. (2000). Labyrinths. Selected stories and other writing. D. Yates & J. Irby (Eds.). London: Penguin.

Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the oppressed. London: Penguin.

Illich, I. (1976). After schooling, what? London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.

Illich, I. & Verne, E. (1976). Imprisoned in the global classroom. London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.

Neill, A. (1968). Summerhill. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Soar, D. (2012). Short cuts. London Review of Books, 34(1), 22.

Watts, J. (1980). Towards an open school. London: Longman.

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Published

2012-10-12

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Invited papers

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