Against School

This book advances the argument that schools are no place for education and reimagines education without the school. The authors describe this as a worrying and frightening place in which we must ‘unthink’ education, recognising it as fragile and contingent on many of our modernist certainties about learning. This unthinking is in itself a means of escape and self-formation. Drawing on ideas from social theory and other social sciences, the book explores starting points and signposts towards a new vision of education. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students of alternative education, schooling, educational policy and philosophy and the sociology of education. Stephen J. Ball is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. Jordi Collet-Sabé is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education and former Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Vic – UCC, Spain.