Autonomy and Schooling

175 Pages·1988·10.028 MB·English

by  Eamonn Callan

Autonomy and Schooling
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Autonomy and
Schooling
EAMONN CALLAN
McGill-Queen's University Press
Kingston and Montreal
McGill-Queen's University Press 1988
ISBN 0-7735-0647-0
Legal deposit third quarter 1988
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
This book has been published with the help of a
grant from the Social Science Federation of Canada,
using funds provided by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Callan, Eamonn, 1953-
Autonomy and schooling
Includes bibliographical references and an index.
ISBN 0-7735-0647-0
I. Education — Philosophy. 2. Self-government
(in education). I. Title.
LB880.C34 1988 370'.! c88-090141-1
Far Corinne
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3
1 Freedom 8
2 Autonomy 25
3 Interests and Schooling 56
4 Freedom and Schooling 88
5 The Government of Schooling 123
Notes 151
Index 163
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Acknowledgments
I wrote this book as a Mactaggart Fellow in the Department of
Educational Foundations at the University of Alberta. If I had not
been fortunate enough to obtain the fellowship, the book might
never have been written. I am grateful to Mr Sandy Mactaggart
for his generosity in establishing the Mactaggart Fellowships.
Helpful comments on an earlier draft were provided by the reader
for McGill-Queen's University Press and one of the readers for the
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. At an earlier stage in
the development of my work, Allen Pearson, Ivan DeFaveri,
Kenneth Strike, and especially Gerry Gaden gave me valuable
guidance. For anyone familiar with the writings of P.S. Wilson and
Michael Bonnett, their influence upon my thinking will be obvious,
though it will be equally apparent that they would disagree with
many of my arguments.