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Bertram C. Bruce - Beyond the Classroom Walls, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Beyond the Classroom Walls

Imagining the Future of Education, from Community Schools to Communiversities

Av Bertram C. Bruce

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The book asks readers to adopt a critical and comprehensive view of education (pre-K to lifelong learning) as existing both within classroom walls, and in the surrounding world, including communities and workplaces. It presents an integrated view of online learning, community schools, communiversities, and learning through work. Our educational systems are organized in ways that make this integration difficult. We have elaborate systems of formal instruction––academies, schools, universities, and training institutes––all to facilitate learning within the walls. At the same time we have ample opportunities for learning in the wild. Unfortunately these systems diverge to the point that they do little to support learning that allows us to draw from both of the realms of knowledge. But it is possible to bring together learning within the walls with that beyond the walls. Moreover it is crucial to make these connections in the world of today. In order to bring together the classroom and daily life we need an educational system that does that as well.The book provides a coherent account of how schooling can and should relate to learning beyond the classroom walls.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-09-15
  • Mått: 157 x 237 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 517 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781475867114
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Bertram C. Bruce is currently a Professor Emeritus in Information Sciences at the University of Illinois. His work contributes to a tradition of democratic education, asking “How can we guide the educational enterprise by an ethical vision, not simply a technocratic one of transmitting isolated facts and skills?” His career combines a philosophical perspective with passionate work directly with communities in the US and many other countries throughout the world.

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Bruce effectively and conclusively challenges anyone interested in the future of public education to imagine education existing both within the walls of a classroom and beyond, extending even to communities and workplaces. Arguing that connecting classroom learning to daily life is imperative, Bruce notes that this practice predates modern educational systems. To achieve fully wholistic education today, educational systems must work to expand the boundaries of learning. Engaging with a community and its resources, for instance, can lead to richer educational experiences. The author profiles educators who have experience with alternative schooling and provides examples of how educational efforts can be carried out more humanely and responsibly to help change the current school system. Overall, Bruce clearly details how schooling can and should connect classroom learning and daily life, drawing on examples such as online learning, community schools, communiversities, and learning through work. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.

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