Schooling as Violence: How Schools Harm Pupils and Societies

by Clive Harber

Book Overview

Asking fundamental and often uncomfortable questions about the nature and purposes of formal education, this book explores the three main ways of looking at the relationship between formal education, individuals and society:

* that education improves society
* that education reproduces society exactly as it is
* that education makes society worse and harms individuals.

Whilst educational policy documents and much academic writing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415344336
• ISBN13: 9780415344333
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"