Escaping Education

Escaping Education Living as Learning Within Grassroots Cultures - Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education

2nd Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Escaping Education challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the undereducated, and the illiterate who constitute the social majorities or the Two-Thirds World. It celebrates the richness of their traditions, their pluriverse of commons, common sense, and communal teaching, keeping at bay the modern reign of homo oeconomicus and homo educandus. Standing the all-too-familiar tale of education on its head, it joins the regeneration of soil cultures, resisting cultural meltdown in the global classroom.

Book information

ISBN: 9781433100611
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Imprint: P. Lang
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd Edition
DEWEY: 370.1
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 147
Weight: 254g
Height: 152mm
Width: 225mm
Spine width: 14mm