Deschooling L'earning : Young Adults and the New Spirit of Capitalism

This book explores reforms to young adults' schooling that mobilise capital friendly learning-and-earning (l'earning) webs. It argues that deschooling l'earning builds young adults' commitment to modern modes of capital accumulation, gives insights into how they can secure their future, and reassures them that this can serve the common good. Deschooling L'earning explores how recent reforms to young adults' senior secondary schooling have given rise to capital friendly learning-and-earning (l'earning) webs, reporting how leaders committed to deschooling have mobilised capability brokers to create l'earning networks. Using Illich's ideas to explain disenchantment with classroom-centric schooling, and Neo-Weberian conceptions of the new spirit of capitalism to deepen understanding of reforms, Singh and Harreveld's analysis suggests that deschooling l'earning builds young adults' commitment to twenty-first century modes of capital accumulation. Deschooling also gives insights into how they might secure their future, and reassures them that this can serve the common good. These conceptual resources provide tools for corrective and transformative critiques that test government policies and practices for their adverse effects "Cover"--"Series"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Tables" -- "Foreword" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "About the Authors" -- "List of Abbreviations and Acronyms" -- "1 Classrooms Need Not Interfere with Lâ#x80;#x99;earning" -- "2 Disenchantment with Classroom-Centric Schooling" -- "3 Brokering Capital-Friendly Lâ#x80;#x99;earning Webs" -- "4 Networking Policy for Deschooling Lâ#x80;#x99;earning" -- "5 Networking Lâ#x80;#x99;earning Webs Is Not So Radical" -- "6 Deschooling Network Leadership" -- "7 Deschooling, Democracy and Accountability" -- "8 Tests of Government Accountability" -- "9 Concepts and Implications for Deschooling" -- "References." Front Matter....Pages i-xii Classrooms Need Not Interfere with L’earning....Pages 1-20 Disenchantment with Classroom-Centric Schooling....Pages 21-43 Brokering Capital-Friendly L’earning Webs....Pages 44-64 Networking Policy for Deschooling L’earning....Pages 65-82 Networking L’earning Webs Is Not So Radical....Pages 83-102 Deschooling Network Leadership....Pages 103-124 Deschooling, Democracy and Accountability....Pages 125-150 Tests of Government Accountability....Pages 151-171 Concepts and Implications for Deschooling....Pages 172-181 Back Matter....Pages 182-209