Lifelong learning or lifelong schooling? A tentative view of the ideas of Ivan Illich with a quotational bibliography
This is a review of Illich's writings and radical ideas which have opened new doors for innovative thought, focusing attention on the philosophy, institutional arrangements, methods and techniques of formal teaching. Illich argues that formal education has become the 'modern proletariat's' new God, strangling the individual, confusing schooling with learning, grade advancement with education and equal educational opportunity with formal schooling, and demands the abolishment of compulsory schooling and the deinstitutionalization of adult education, thus making way for an informal education based on mutual inquiry and lifelong access to self-chosen educational opportunities. Through the critical examination of his work (157 references are given) three tentative proposals have been extracted: 1) adult education must not be institutionalized, 2) adult education must organize and help the de-schooling of society, 3) research into radical alternatives to formal education must increase, although the exact direction is still in a state of flux
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| Format: | book biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
| Subjects: | Adult education, Educational reform, Formal education, Lifelong learning, Nonformal education, Illich, Ivan, |
| Online Access: | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000166582 |
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