K–12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor

Download or read book K–12 Education as a Hermeneutic Adventurous Endeavor written by Doron Yosef-Hassidim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the role of compulsory mass education and schooling in a democratic society, this book introduces an alternative vision for K-12 education as an "adventurous endeavour." Grounded in a strong theoretical framework, Yosef-Hassidim reveals the negative impact of instrumentalization of schools: when education is considered a social and political instrument, it serves dominant social forces’ interests rather than students’ or humanity as a whole. Offering conceptual and pragmatic frameworks to limit political influence on schooling, the author proposes a new hermeneutical structure that restores education’s agency and separates it from external social forces, and provides the foundation for regarding K-12 education as a sovereign social sphere in its own right.