Critical views on schooling system – selected reformatory views in the framework of alternative pedagogy: deschooling and democratic education (free education) Cover Image

Critical views on schooling system – selected reformatory views in the framework of alternative pedagogy: deschooling and democratic education (free education)
Critical views on schooling system – selected reformatory views in the framework of alternative pedagogy: deschooling and democratic education (free education)

Author(s): Wojciech Duranowski
Subject(s): School education, State/Government and Education, Present Times (2010 - today), Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego
Keywords: schooling system; education; democracy; alternative pedagogy;

Summary/Abstract: In this article we described concepts of deschooling and democratic education (free education) and their practical implementation in such educational institutions as, e.g., Summerhill and Multicultural Lyceum of Humanities of Jacek Kuroń in Warsaw. Although those two concepts have rebounded very loud echo in the pedagogical environment, you can count the institutions who use the democratic system on fingers of one hand. However, the system of deschooling might begin taking on the shoot together with increasing the opportunities of e- learning and self- learning communities such as Khan Academy.

  • Issue Year: 22/2013
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 23 - 34
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English