Simply brilliant a fundemental work
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English Year 2011
Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gramsci’s relevance
Gramsci’s life
Education and the concept of hegemony
1 The schooling of children
Introduction
The curriculum of the school
Curriculum and the sociology of knowledge
Curriculum as ‘the entire thought of the past’
School assessment and examinations
Educational method: school as work
Instruction or education?
Authority, teachers and teaching
Education and Fascism
Politics and schooling: correspondence or contradiction?
The structure and organisation of the school system
Educational theory as counter-cyclical
Schooling: towards the education of adults
2 The education of adults
Political education as adult education
Education and the problem of the intellectuals
Technical and vocational education
3 Theory and practice in education
The philosophy of praxis
Polytechnical education and the relationship between theory and practice
Education and Gramsci’s conception of praxis
Theory, practice and the education of teachers
Theory, practice and the problem of relevance
Conclusion
Notes
A note on sources
Bibliography