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Deschooling from above

Sukarieh, M; Tannock, S; (2020) Deschooling from above. Race & Class 10.1177/0306396819889294. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

The concept of deschooling has been making a comeback, after having been largely written off by the mainstream education research community in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, it is not just anti-capitalist radicals who are rediscovering the appeal of deschooling, but political and economic elites as well. This article traces some of the central claims and practices of this elite-led movement – that we call ‘deschooling from above’ – in current attacks on universal higher education, projects to deschool professional and technical training and an abandonment of past commitments to universal compulsory schooling. The authors argue that all of these trends need to be situated within the broader context of the unravelling of the education fix of the previous era of global (neoliberal) capitalist restructuring.

Type: Article
Title: Deschooling from above
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/0306396819889294
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396819889294
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Alternative credentials, anti-college movement, deschooling, education fix, Illich, school closure, school exclusion, work-based learning
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089567
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