What Is A School?
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v10i2.43653Résumé
movement some fundamental concerns are ignored. Does Illich actually "deschool society" as he claims? And are alternative schools actually schools or a form of deschooling? The purpose of this paper is to · examine the question, 'What is a school?' By doing so it may clear up some unanswered questions about deschooling and alternative schools. Illustrations are drawn from Illich's "learning webs" and from Philadelphia's Parkway Program. The paper did not uncover a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the application of the term 'school,' but rather sought to discern criteria to apply to expressions in which the term 'school' is used as a substantive. On the basis of criteria developed, it was concluded that the Parkway Program was a school and that certain features of lllich's learning webs are also schools rather than deschooled plans. Alternatives are not forms of deschooling but gain their significance by
serving as an alternative to a prevailing model; therefore a theory of freedom of choice must be developed before one can speak meaningfully of a school as an alternative school.
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