Session 1, The political and social dimensions of formal education. Ideology, hidden curricula and the education of the citizen.

Units

  Learning Material
Reading material

A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.

Compulsory reading list

  • Dewey, J. 1916/2002. “Democracy and education: An introduction to the philosophy of education”. In John Dewey and American education, Edited by: Maxcy, S.J. Vol. 3, Bristol, , UK: Thoemmes. 
  • Freire P. (2000). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum

List for further reading

  • Apple, M. (2009) Can Critical Education interrupt the right? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: 30 (3) 239-251
  • Biesta, G.J.J. (2012) Receiving the gift of teaching: from ‘learning from’ to ‘being taught by’, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 32, 5, 449-461
  • Braun, A., Ball, S.J. & Maguire, M. (2011): Policy enactments in schools introduction: towards a toolbox for theory and research, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 32 (4): 581-583
  • Davis, R., Conroy, J. and Clague, A.J. (2020) Schools as Factories: The Limits of a Metaphor, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54 (5): 1471-1488
  • Kakos, M & Ploner, J. (2016) (Im)mobility and Hard to reach communities: The practice of citizenship education, In: Kakos, M., Muller-Hofstede, C. and Ross, A. (Eds) Beyond Us versus Them: Citizenship Education  with hard to reach learners in Europe, Bonne: BpB
  • Livingstone, D.W. (1995) Searching for Missing Links: neo‐Marxist theories of education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 16:1, 53-73, DOI: 10.1080/0142569950160104Dewey, J. ([1916] 2002)
  • Marsh, J. (2011) Class dismissed: Why we cannot Teach or Learn our way out of inequality, NY: Monthly Review Press
  • Moorman, E. (2020) Paternalism, Authority and Compulsory Schooling in Social Anarchist Educational Thought Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54, (3): 563-581
  • Papastefanou, M. (2014) (ed.) Philosophical Perspectives on Compulsory Education (Dordrecht, Springer)
  • Sant, E. (2019) Democratic Education: A Theoretical Review (2006–2017) Review of Educational Research, 89, (5):  655–696
  • Tomlinson, S. (2005) Education in a Post Welfare Society, Oxford: OUP.