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Postformal EducationEvolving Education: Pre-formal and Formal

Postformal Education: Evolving Education: Pre-formal and Formal [In the first part of this chapter I make an ambitious attempt to present an overview of what education-as-enculturation might have been like thousands of years before we had formal schooling—even for the elite. I trace fragments of the evolutionary narrative that have been critically underappreciated—the apparent aesthetic sensibilities of some early hominins and humans. I then discuss the early introduction of formal elite schooling in Europe and a handful of other civilisation centres. I show that formal, publicly funded, universal school education began little more than two hundred years ago in Europe and was holistic, idealistic and evolutionary. Only after the Industrial Revolution did schooling begin to resemble factories. The purpose of this chapter is primarily to contextualise the futures of education within the broad macro-historical development from pre-formal, to formal to postformal education.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Postformal EducationEvolving Education: Pre-formal and Formal

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 3)
Postformal Education — Aug 12, 2016

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-29068-3
Pages
71 –98
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-29069-0_4
Publisher site
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Abstract

[In the first part of this chapter I make an ambitious attempt to present an overview of what education-as-enculturation might have been like thousands of years before we had formal schooling—even for the elite. I trace fragments of the evolutionary narrative that have been critically underappreciated—the apparent aesthetic sensibilities of some early hominins and humans. I then discuss the early introduction of formal elite schooling in Europe and a handful of other civilisation centres. I show that formal, publicly funded, universal school education began little more than two hundred years ago in Europe and was holistic, idealistic and evolutionary. Only after the Industrial Revolution did schooling begin to resemble factories. The purpose of this chapter is primarily to contextualise the futures of education within the broad macro-historical development from pre-formal, to formal to postformal education.]

Published: Aug 12, 2016

Keywords: Global Knowledge; Global Education; Global South; Early Hominins; Global Knowledge Economy

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