Learning in a time of cholera
Imagining a future for public education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21725828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terry Wrigley (0000-0002-1536-243X, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-123 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Educational Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-9041 • E-ISSN: 2165-8714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474904120977968 |
| OpenAlex | W3112424920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article considers some theoretical resources for resistance to neoliberalised schooling and develops principles for reimagining the common school. Whilst relevant internationally, it is situated in the particular context of England, as a global epicentre of school reform – a marketised and largely privatised system where the net of surveillance and control is tightly woven from assessment data, inspections and performance pay, and where the curriculum has been systematically divorced from young people’s life experience and concerns. To clarify the meaning of this crisis, the paper draws on some key ideas from the Marxist tradition, particularly class and alienation, situating neoliberal policy within the crises of late capitalism. The paper looks in two directions for resources to help overcome the current impasse. Firstly, it highlights the strengths of more creative and emancipatory pedagogies in earlier decades of English curriculum development, including the value of learners’ experience, vernacular language, dialogic teaching and play. Secondly it examines the northern European paradigm of curriculum construction focused on more holistic human development ( Bildung), focusing particularly on the work of Wolfgang Klafki. The value of this theorisation of curriculum and pedagogy is highlighted through contrasts with the current drive towards a ‘knowledge-based curriculum’
Alienation · Capitalism · Curriculum · Curriculum development · Dialogic · Epistemology · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law
Cultural literacy
A Dialogic Teaching Companion
The Precariat
Planet of Slums
The Retreat from Class
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
Human Capital
Foucault and Marxism
Cruel Optimism
Productive and Unproductive Labor and Marx's Theory of Class
Marx's Theory of Alienation
The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education
Post capitalist society
Radical Enlightenment
Overcoming the crisis in curriculum theory
Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Is a ‘Left Populism’ Possible
Place‐based education in the global age
The discovery of the new middle class
The evolution of school league tables in England 1992–2016
The Illusions of Postmodernism
Ecology Against Capitalism
Abschied von der Aufklärung
A Realist Theory of Science
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The misguided search for the political
Foucault and neo-liberalism
Against Meritocracy
Changing schools
Dialectic of Enlightenment
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |