Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later

Situating Deschooling Society in His Intellectual and Personal Journey

Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later
Rosa Bruno-Jofre, Jon Igelmo Zaldivar
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24 Nov 2022 CAN
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9781487545062
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Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later introduces the reader to the process that led to the writing of one of the most controversial and well-known books that indicted schooling, not only as an institution but as an ethos. In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later looks at the theological roots of Illich' s thought and the intellectual and ideological strands that contributed to his ideas. Guided by the central question of how Illich reached the point of writing Deschooling Society, the book sheds light on how Illich produced a critique of schooling that can be defined by its eclecticism. Bruno-Jofre and Igelmo Zaldivar explore how this controversial book was framed by Illich' s early neo-scholastic and anti-modern foundation, his discovery of St. Thomas through Jacques Maritain, and the existential turning points that influenced his public life and intellectual direction in moving from a critique of the Church as institution to a critique of schooling. Drawing from the interpretative theories of Quentin Skinner, Reinhart Koselleck, and William H. Sewell and from concepts such as educationalization, transnationality, and configuration, among other heuristic tools, the authors provide an original and cross-disciplinary analysis of Deschooling Society and its place in Illich' s journey.
Based on authentic, convincing, and impressive primary sources, the scholarship in Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later provides the foundation for a sound and compelling argument. There is a wide, diverse audience for this book including students and scholars in the fields of history, comparative history, philosophy, social and political science, and comparative education. The accessible, engaging style in which the book is written also transcends these areas and spills over into a wider lay audience. - Judith Harford, Professor in the School of Education, University College Dublin Ivan Illich has undoubtedly earned a place in the canon of great educational thinkers. Unfortunately, his Deschooling Society is currently often regarded as a cause of the alleged decline in the quality of schools. The excellent study Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later has the great merit of placing things in their historical and biographical context. It is to the credit of the authors that, in contrast to the mainstream of educational research, they have enrolled in the rich traditions of cultural-historical reflection to find out what schooling ultimately means to society. - Marc Depaepe, Former president of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Jon Igelmo ZaldIvar offer an account of the intellectual journey of Ivan Illich leading up to his pathbreaking book, Deschooling Society, in 1971. The themes of that book seem prescient: a critique of the monopoly of the nation-state over education; an implicit call for vouchers or other forms of school choice; and most suggestively, the growing capacity of persons to learn outside the boundaries of schooling - what he called ' Learning Webs, ' long before anyone thought about the internet or social media. Illich' s radical critique is still interesting, still relevant today. - Nicholas C. Burbules, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This is an outstanding work by a number of the foremost authorities in the field. It does immense justice to the essential and perennial aspects of Freire and Illich' s thoughts on schooling. Moreover, presenting the exposition in relation to how their ideas unfolded within various contexts constitutes not only a sound work in the history of education ideas in its own right but also acts as a terrific heuristic device for making the work accessible not only to specialists but also to general educated readers on the matters investigated. - Thomas O' Donoghue, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Western Australia
Rosa Bruno-Jofre is a professor in the Faculty of Education cross-appointed to the Department of History at Queen' s University. Jon Igelmo Zaldivar is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the Complutense University of Madrid.
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ISBN-13: 9781487545062
Published: 24 Nov 2022
Published In: Canada
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 176

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