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What Kind of Society Does the School Need? Redefining the Democratic Work of Education in Impatient Times
Studies in Philosophy and Education ( IF 1.629 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-07 , DOI: 10.1007/s11217-019-09675-y
Gert Biesta

In many places around the world the modern school is under a relentless pressure to perform and the standards for such performance are increasingly being set by the global education measurement industry. All this puts a pressure on schools, teachers and students but also on policy makers and politicians, who all seem to have been caught up in a global educational rat-race. There is a discourse of panic about educational quality, which seems to drive an insatiable need for improvement, geared towards ever narrower definitions of what counts as education and what counts in education. The surprising result is that the modern school is increasingly seen as a problem, with high levels of dissatisfaction amongst teachers, students, politicians, the media and the public at large, who all want something better from the school, although they disagree about what this may look like. The question this raises is whether it is time to give up on the modern schools and its promise and hand it over to Pearson, Google and other educational capitalists, or whether we should try again and, if so, where we might go. The reflections I offer in this paper are primarily meant to think again about the relationship between the school and society, arguing for a more ‘obstinate’ school and a more ‘patient’ society. I argue that whether such a recalibration of the relationship between school and society is possible, is ultimately a test of the democratic quality of society itself.

中文翻译:

学校需要什么样的社会?重新定义急躁时期的民主教育工作

在世界各地的许多地方,现代学校都面临着无情的表现压力,而这种表现的标准越来越多地由全球教育测量行业制定。所有这些都给学校、教师和学生带来了压力,也给政策制定者和政治家带来了压力,他们似乎都被卷入了一场全球教育竞赛。有一种关于教育质量的恐慌言论,这似乎推动了对改进的永不满足的需求,其目的是对什么是教育和什么是教育的定义越来越窄。令人惊讶的结果是,现代学校越来越被视为一个问题,教师、学生、政治家、媒体和广大公众的不满程度很高,他们都希望学校有更好的表现,尽管他们不同意这可能是什么样子。这提出的问题是,是否是时候放弃现代学校及其承诺并将其交给培生、谷歌和其他教育资本家,或者我们是否应该再试一次,如果是的话,我们可能会去哪里。我在这篇论文中提出的思考主要是为了重新思考学校与社会的关系,主张一个更“固执”的学校和一个更“耐心”的社会。我认为,这种对学校与社会关系的重新校准是否可能,最终是对社会本身民主质量的考验。或者我们是否应该再试一次,如果是,我们可能会去哪里。我在这篇论文中提出的思考主要是为了重新思考学校与社会的关系,主张一个更“固执”的学校和一个更“耐心”的社会。我认为,这种对学校与社会关系的重新校准是否可能,最终是对社会本身民主质量的考验。或者我们是否应该再试一次,如果是,我们可能会去哪里。我在这篇论文中提出的思考主要是为了重新思考学校与社会的关系,主张一个更“固执”的学校和一个更“耐心”的社会。我认为,这种对学校与社会关系的重新校准是否可能,最终是对社会本身民主质量的考验。
更新日期:2019-08-07
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