Contents
Foreword by Anthony Paré
1 What is the point of school?
2 How we learn – in and out of school
The Gradgrind model of education
3 Technology is the question, not the answer
The possibilities of technology
Social media and digital natives
4 Knowledge, curriculum and control
History and school history: worlds apart
5 Instituting difference: how schools reproduce inequality
‘Choice’ and private schooling
6 Neoliberalism: education as commodity
International league tables (and PISA envy)
Pearson: new markets and a new model
7 Another education is possible
Freire and education for liberation
Different schooling, different society