Radical Schooling for Democracy claims that the ideology of neoliberalism increasingly dominates economic and as a consequence, educational and social life, thus causing formal education to adopt a narrow, rational and economic purpose for all students.

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About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgements

Dedication: John Dewey

Poem

Part 1. Thinking Philosophically

1. Trends and tensions of philosophy and sociology

2. Understandings of epistemology

3. Action theory and theorists

4. Creative democracy, ethics, power and control

Part II. Thinking Educationally

1. Education as philosophy of practice

• Philosophy 1: Education as a knowledge discipline
• Philosophy 2. Religion, the sacred and profane
• Philosophy 3. Conservatism, what is or should be
• Philosophy 4. Neoliberalism, capitalism personified
• Philosophy 5. Social Democracy, in practice or in name
• Philosophy 6. Science, explanation or understanding
• Philosophy 7. Marxism, social class and social division

Part III. Thinking Democratically

1. Social class, equity and socio-economic positions

2. Connecting with Indigenous education

3. Teacher education as experience

4.Radical schooling for all

References

Index

Neil Hooley is a Lecturer in the College of Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.