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Education · 2019 · English

Homo Educandus: Why Our School System is Broken and What We Can Do About It

by Jan Bransen

About this book

Jan Bransen examines the separation of schooling from everyday life and asks what education should enable people to become. Rather than treating learning simply as preparation for a later career, he explores it as a continuing human and social activity.

The book considers the organization of schools, relationships between generations and the roles adopted by students and teachers. Its philosophical discussion challenges familiar assumptions about achievement and development while proposing ways to connect education with meaningful participation in life. This English edition translates a work first published in Dutch in 2019.