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Record Nr.

UNINA9910983335803321

Autore

Charkin Emily

Titolo

Meanings of Manual Work in Radical Education : The Chore Curriculum / / by Emily Charkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

ISBN

9783031670312

3031670310

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Alternative Education, , 2946-5044

Disciplina

371.04094109045

Soggetti

Alternative education

Education

Children

Schools

Holistic education

Alternative Education

Childhood Education

School and Schooling

Holistic Education

Experiential Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2- Useful Work: ‘Straight out of a gulag’ or ‘finding a freedom’ -- Chapter 3- Arts, Crafts and Invention: ‘Antiquarian’ or ‘transformative’ -- Chapter 4- Construction: ‘To suit their needs’ or ‘building for the sake of building’ -- Chapter 5- Manual Work and Radical Education: ‘Waning’ or ‘their time is now’ -- Chapter 6- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to challenge and inspire readers with lived examples of alternatives to current paradigms in education, childhood and community, through new research into two important and neglected schools in the history of progressive and radical education. Kilguhanity and Wennington schools were both founded in the UK in 1940, and at



both schools pupils and staff were extensively involved in the manual work of looking after and shaping the physical fabric of the community. The author uses these case studies to challenge the tendency to equate pupil participation with ‘voice’ and ‘meetings’, and casts light on a fault line within the progressive and radical traditions. She then presents new challenges and perspectives to ongoing debates about education and childhood, unsettling the stalemate between liberal and traditional, and progressive and radical schools by uncovering a community-based alternative. The book offers a contribution to a growing body of contemporary research literature on progressive and radical education, alternative education, informal education and social pedagogy as well as across the disciplines of childhood studies, history, philosophy and geography. Emily Charkin researches and writes about the experiences of young people growing up in radical schools and communities. She also organises an Instead of School educational experiment for home-educating families at a community woodland in East Sussex, UK.