Against School: Thinking Education Differently

by Jordi Collet-Sabé and Stephen Ball

This book advances the argument that schools are no place for education and reimagines education without the school. The authors describe this as a worrying and frightening place in which we must 'unthink' education, recognising it as fragile and contingent on many of our modernist certainties about learning. This unthinking is in itself a means of escape and self-formation. Drawing on ideas from social theory and other social sciences, the book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031804147
• ISBN13: 9783031804144
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"