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Let’s go back to the moment when Tony Blair, as Prime Minister, announced the end of educational ideology – that educational aims and procedures were a given, and that all remained were the technical, non-sectarian challenge of implementing educational policy. Since that time we have lived under a single educational ideology, that of the authoritarian Right. People often talk of this as a ‘neo-liberal’ approach to the management of the education system – I don’t think that is right. Tony Blair was a Progressive, and Progressives historically have, in many ways, been conservative. But in this series of Blogs I’ll make that transparent, and show what one alternative might be – a left-wing approach to education. I do this to ‘multiply the narrative’ about education.
If you think you know schools – sit tight!
If you think you know schools – sit tight!
savillekushner@hotmail.co.ukJune 9, 2017Education and Politics - Revisted 09.06.20
In 1968 Philip Jackson published a game-changing book on schools. It was called Life in Classrooms. This was the first time a Sociologist had entered a school to understand what it is, not for what we claim it to be. He did not assume that schools were places for teaching and learning, for example, but he was prepared, as any good Sociologist, to learn to see afresh. He found, in fact, that schools revolved around three key purposes: crowds, praise and power.
Crowds: In no other area of social life do we spend large amounts of our lives in confined spaces with crowds of other people. The demand this creates for discipline and order are great and dominate the life and culture of a school. “There is a social intimacy in schools that is unmatched anywhere else in our society.” This becomes the leading purpose of schooling: to create and sustain order for the management of crowds.
Crowds: In no other area of social life do we spend large amounts of our lives in confined spaces with crowds of other people. The demand this creates for discipline and order are great and dominate the life and culture of a school. “There is a social intimacy in schools that is unmatched anywhere else in our society.” This becomes the leading purpose of schooling: to create and sustain order for the management of crowds.
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What of Brexit and the EU Behaviour? Politicians, MEPs a poor excuse of poor leadership....perhaps. 22.04.21
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