Searching for the Ideal School Around the World

School Tourism and Performative Autoethnographic-We
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50601-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Arts, Creativities, and Learning Environments in Global Perspectives

Through this book, the author shares the nomadology of Alys-we searching for the Ideal School. Fed up with the System, traditional mainstream education directed by neoliberalism and high-stakes testing, Alys travelled to over 180 places of learning/schools in 23 countries that were educating differently. Through performative autoethnographic-we the author shares these embodied experiences in poems, vignettes, journaling and ethnodrama. Alys realised that the Ideal School is an oxymoron and she argues that schools and schooling, even within innovative education, are not the future for learning.

By developing the edge-ucation and sharing stories from the ‘gems’ that currently exist in places of learning/schools, there is the potentiality and hope for a paradigm shift. The book encourages everyone to become School Tourists themselves. Performing School Tourism is a mediation between creativity, arts, learning and teaching, leading to change as it helps shape the identity of those performing School Tourism and allows them to add these new experiences and understandings of the possibilities for education to the Earth-we, the collective consciousness of the world. Read this book to follow Alys’ journey as they share stories and trouble different innovative pedagogies (including Steiner Waldorf, Progressive, Democratic, and Montessori). The reader can choose their own adventure, following the rhizomatic multiple voices of Alys-we.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendus, Alys

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Michael Kamen

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

About the Author

Introduction

1 Alys the Guide

2 Part 1 Covers…

3 Part 2 Covers…

4 Part 3 Covers…

5 Alys the Guide

PART 1: Fed up with the System

1 ‘Fed up with the System’

1 Alys the Guide: Introduction

2 Fed up with the English Education System

3 Fed up with Neoliberalism in Education

4 Alys the Guide

5 Performative Autoethnography

6 The Multiplicities of Alys-We

7 Summary

2 My Nomadology

1 Alys the Guide

2 Alys the School Tourist: Where Did I Travel?

3 Fed up with Fixed Home Dwelling: Introducing My Embodied Nomadology

4 Alys the Van-Dweller Describes Their Life in 2017

5 An Ode to the Car Park – 13th September 2016

6 Alys the Nomad

7 Vignette 1

8 Summary

3 School Is Not the Answer

1 Alys the Guide

2 The Queering of ‘Bad-Alys’: The Green School Epiphany Poem

3 Edge-ucation, Potentiality and the Utopian Performative of Hope

4 Potentiality and Hope

5 Alys the Guide: Utopian Performative of Hope for Education

6 Summary

PART 2: Educating Differently

4 Steiner Waldorf Education

1 Alys the Guide

2 Alys-We: Why Not Waldorf? A Play-Script from SE Asia

3 Alys the Educator: What Is Steiner Waldorf Education?

4 Kindergarten (3–6 years)

5 Vignette 2: Alys the Performer

6 Lower School (7–14 years)

7 Vignette 3: Alys the School Tourist

8 Upper School (14+)

9 Vignette 4: Alys Educating Diffferently

10 Vignette 5: Alys the School Tourist

11 Alys the Guide

12 Alys and Steiner: The Role of the Steiner Waldorf Class Teacher

13 Alys the Theorist: What Are the Main Critiques of Steiner Waldorf Pedagogy?

14 Alys the Guide: Why I Have Included Two Chapters on Steiner Waldorf

15 S

Über Autor(innen)

Alys Mendus, Ph.D. (2017), University of Hull, UK, is an Independent Scholar and Casual Academic at Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne and Southern Cross University, Australia. Alys uses arts-based research, autoethnography and collaborative narrative inquiry to research innovative education, feminism and societal change.