ERIC Number: EJ1433682
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures -- An Escape from Extinction Ethics
British Journal of Educational Studies, v72 n4 p441-456 2024
In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond the persistent failures and irredeemable injustices of modern mass schooling episteme. The episteme for education we adumbrate -- an episteme of life continuance -- begins with a recognition of interdependency and the value of diversity, diverse knowledges and relations of tolerance. We propose an escape from the extinction ethics which modern schools perpetuate and a new grammar of living in which education and politics are processes of re-learning, co-learning, decision taking, limit testing, and conflict resolution in relation to an uncertain future. To achieve this, we outline a set of open and 'unplanned' commoning activities that would take place within local social infrastructures focused on re-politising learning itself and practicing the care of oneself, others, community and the environment. The proposal for a different education as common(ing) activities undertaken within social infrastructures, is about reimagining political and environmental relations, and co-creating a sense of collective ownership of and responsibility for the environment. A form of community that it is practical, rather than utopian, and that would be both the means and ends for such an education.
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Holistic Approach, Climate, Conservation (Environment), School Community Relationship, Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Collectivism, Social Capital
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