Schools in Transition

Schools in Transition

Schools in Transition Linking Past, Present, and Future in Educational Practice Edited by Pauli Siljander, Kimmo Kontio and Eetu Pikkarainen University of Oulu, Finland

A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: 978-94-6300-825-9 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-826-6 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-827-3 (e-book) Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/ All chapters in this book have undergone peer review. Chapter 10 was originally published in Educational Researcher, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 5 20, 2009. Sage Publications. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted here with permission. Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved 2017 Sense Publishers No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface vii 1. A Modern Idea of the School 1 Kimmo Kontio, Eetu Pikkarainen and Pauli Siljander Section I: Functions of the School: Theoretical Issues 2. A Philosophical School for Our Time: Thinking with Plato after Dewey 19 David T. Hansen and Jessica Davis 3. Axel Honneth on Role, Form and Results of Public Education Revisited 35 Teemu Hanhela 4. What are Universities for? From the Community of the Selves to the Transformative Potential of Higher Education 53 Jani Kukkola Section II: School, Learning and Teaching 5. Schools and the New Language of Learning: A Critical Perspective 67 Jouni Peltonen 6. The Paradox of Being a Teacher: Institutionalized Relevance and Organized Mistrust 79 Daniel Tröhler 7. School Learning as Human Growth: Modal Dynamics of Learning 97 Eetu Pikkarainen Section III: School, Economics and Labor Markets 8. The State, Market and Education 115 Kimmo Kontio and Maximilian Sailer 9. Productivity, Effectiveness, Efficiency Basic Concepts of the Economics of Education 137 Dieter Timmermann 10. The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice 161 Henry M. Levin v

TABLE OF CONTENTS Section IV: School and School Reform National Perspectives 11. School in Transition: The Case of Finland 191 Pauli Siljander 12. The Transformation of School in a Changing Society A German Example 213 Wolfgang Schönig 13. It Takes a Village (Catholic) Education in the 21st Century 229 John Andreas Fuchs 14. Schooling vis-à-vis Learning: The Case for Reducing Compulsion 241 Andrew Stables 15. School Representation in Curriculum Policies 255 Alice Casimiro Lopes and Elizabeth Macedo Section V: School, Utopias and Future 16. The History of Education as the History of Writing: A Look from the Past to the Future 273 Norm Friesen 17. The Emancipation of Children 289 Alexander M. Sidorkin 18. Tensions and Controversies of School Development Some Remarks 303 Pauli Siljander and Kimmo Kontio Notes on Contributors 313 vi

PREFACE School is one of the most central and thus also, perhaps, most debated educational institution in the modern society. We can hardly imagine any human culture without some kind of education; nor can we imagine any modern society without some kind of schooling. Schooling is a pivotal part of education so much that most of the history of educational science is based in the research of school. This book reflects and analyzes the function of school, and recent trends in school development. The articles of the book examine problems of school from several points of view, without striving to achieve a single, uniform view. It should be stressed that the subject area of school and schooling does not limit itself only to the institutions which are traditionally called schools, but school in the general sense, referring to all institutional forms of education, independent of student age and level. We would like to thank all the authors, whose contributions made this book possible. We would also like to thank Sense Publishers for accepting this book for publication. vii