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Index
Cover
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. What is the point of school?
Learning in and out of school
Is technology the answer?
2. How we learn – in and out of school
The Gradgrind model of education
Street and school mathematics
3. Technology is the question, not the answer
The possibilities of technology
Virtual learning
Social media and digital natives
4. Knowledge, curriculum and control
History and school history: worlds apart
Content versus skills
What do we mean by literacy?
Evolution and/or creationism
5. Instituting difference: how schools reproduce inequality
Selection versus inclusion
‘Choice’ and private schooling
The IQ test as Sorting Hat
Schooling and gender
Five myths about assessment
6. Neoliberalism: education as commodity
The GERM
Payment by results
International league tables (and PISA envy)
Pearson: new markets and a new model
7. Another education is possible
Radical popular alternatives
Freire and education for liberation
Different schooling, different society
The creativity of ordinary classrooms
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