The Morality of the Mass Formal Schooling System: Education, Rights, and Resistance (New Directions in the Philosophy of Education)

This book delves into a novel philosophical and moral analysis of the mass formal schooling system.In the light of the routine and unjust systemic harm to primary- and secondary-aged children caused by the mass formal schooling system, the book acknowledges the need for making efforts towards non-harmful educational alternatives. The book undertakes a rights-based and harm-rejecting critique of the mass formal schooling system, placing its ideologies and practices under the microscope.The volume proposes that students have a right to defend themselves and that others have an obligation to defend them and work towards systems and educational practices rooted in peace and non-harm.Chapters discuss themes such as self-defence, student resistance, and educational vanguardism.Peace education movements and frameworks are considered in a discussion on the development and viability of alternative pedagogical approaches.In examining how the mass schooling system has established itself as the on