Michael Oakeshott’s Criticism in the Sociology of Education

Auteurs

  • Dana ŢABREA Cercetator post-doctoral, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi, domeniul Filosofie,

Mots-clés :

education, sociology of education, socialization, vocational education, employment

Résumé

In the following paper I intend to analyse the leading points of the criticism of the sociology of education I detected in Michael Oakeshott. First, education is substituted by socialization. Then, in connection to this, vocational education, only an alternative to education at first, created for the poor, becomes more and more important. There are also several myths that link education to employment and economic development. Leaving such ideas aside, we can choose a liberal academic education, that doesn’t underlie extrinsec purposes such as the student’s future career or his fulfilling the needs of his current society. The more so as the fact that education is not strictly orientated towards producing valuable performers of the social functions, doesn’t mean that educational engagement is designed to produce socially valueless persons.

Références

Hatos, Adrian. 2006. Sociologia educatiei, Polirom, Iasi

Oakeshott, Michael. 1989. “Education: The Engagement and Its Frustration”, in The Voice of Liberal Learning, Yale University Press, New Haven and London

Oakeshott, Michael. 2004. “Work and Play”, in What is History? and other essays, Imprint Academic

Williams, Kevin. 2007. Education and The Voice of Michael Oakeshott, Imprint Academic, UK

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THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK