DeepDyve eBooks - A Philosophy of Schooling

Stern, Julian

Pages: 1 –18

[Why care about schools, and what role does caring have in schooling? There is an ethical theory that puts care at its heart, and this says that care must be mutual. Care is presented here as the foundation of this philosophy of schooling, the basis of epistemology (caring for the object of...

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Schools as Communities

Stern, Julian

Pages: 19 –37

[If care provides an ethical, epistemological, and ontological basis for schooling, what more is there to add? Relatively formal education happens in many places, and care is relevant to them all. But schools are learning communities—with the word ‘community’ having a specific meaning. My claim...

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Learning in Dialogue

Stern, Julian

Pages: 39 –59

[The relationships in schools, dedicated to learning, can be described in terms of ‘conversations’ or ‘dialogue’. Where the dialogue is essentially hierarchical and backward looking, it is broadly conservative; where the dialogue is more egalitarian, uncertain, and forward looking, it is more...

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Personhood and Personalism in School

Stern, Julian

Pages: 61 –78

[The personalist philosophies of John Macmurray, Mounier, or Buber, set personhood at the centre of their ethics (what should be done?), epistemologies (what can be known?), ontologies (what is there?), and politics (how is power wielded?). Personalists do not all agree on what a ‘person’ or...

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Pedagogy, Research, and Being a Curious Teacher

Stern, Julian

Pages: 79 –101

[Curiosity is one of the virtues at the centre of schooling, and is also—not coincidentally—central to research. Teachers need to be curious about what is studied and about the children and young people in their class. Much of the talk about ‘reflective practitioners’ is really about curiosity....

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School Leadership: Caute in the Middle

Stern, Julian

Pages: 103 –126

[This chapter attempts to give meaning to school leadership that recognises democracy whilst also recognising followership. Only in this way can the micro politics of schools make sense in the meso and macro politics of wider communities and society. Leaders are ‘caught in the middle’,...

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The Sustainability of Schooling and Its Alternatives

Stern, Julian

Pages: 127 –149

[Mass schooling is a peculiar modern phenomenon with a smaller role in education than many are willing to admit. Schools are not necessary. If they are to continue, they need to be justified—to policy-makers and to the public, and most of all to the staff and pupils in schools. Sustainable...

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A Curriculum for One: Overcoming Dualism

Stern, Julian

Pages: 151 –170

[Most of us live a divided life: ideas apart from feelings, theories apart from actions, and people apart from each other and apart from ‘nature’. Following Parker Palmer, this chapter seeks to live divided-no-more. Dualism, of the kind attributed to Descartes, came to dominate modern philosophy....

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The Politics of Schooling

Stern, Julian

Pages: 171 –189

[This chapter is a philosophical exploration of the politics of schooling that goes beyond the fear-driven politics of Hobbes and is instead informed by personalism and optimistic anarchism. Anarchism sees relatively small-scale communities as the dominating features of politics. It is not that...

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