RADICAL EQUALITY IN EDUCATION by Joanne Larson ( 9780415528047 )

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Title:

RADICAL EQUALITY IN EDUCATION
STARTING OVER IN U.S. SCHOOLING

By:

Joanne Larson

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Paperback

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0415528046

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9780415528047

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

14 February, 2014

Pages:

128

Synopsis:

Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that is more consistent with contemporary knowledge production processes-one that moves beyond the either/or binary of preparing workers/citizens in a competitive global economy or a democracy, Larson argues that the only real solution is to start over in U.S. education-the purpose of schooling should be to facilitate human learning, meaning making, and knowledge production toward just and equitable education for all. Radical Equality in Education offers a new ontological starting point and a new theoretical framing that would follow from it; articulates theoretical, curricular, pedagogical, and assessment principles that frame a real plan for fundamental change in American education, and presents examples of what these ideas might look like in schools and communities.

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6 black & white tables

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Routledge

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