Originally published in 1978, reissued here with a new preface, this book describes a project based outside the school institution, but in co-operation with it, exploring methods and courses which might offer meaningful education for groups of fifth-form leavers. Though the project had been primarily concerned with developing a survival curriculum for the non-academic urban adolescent, the format of living, experiential teaching and learning it exemplifies would be appropriate to the education of children of all ages and abilities.
The authors identified community resources and offer suggestions as to how these might be better employed. They show how education could be taken out of the classroom to extend ‘schooling’ beyond the schools, and in this context they point to the vast, untapped resources of both people and buildings outside the school walls which could profitably be incorporated within the existing learning framework. They show, also, how the training of ‘professionals’ – particularly trainee teachers and social workers – by involvement in such an experiment could constitute a fundamental preparation for their future roles.
Finally, the authors urge for an extension of social policy with regard to education; an extension of provision which they argue could be achieved largely through the re-allocation of existing resources, such as had already demonstrably worked in the city of Bristol. The perspective throughout is ideological as well as practical, and the book is both a polemic and a procedural manual suggesting workable approaches and ideas, many of which are still relevant today
By:
Roger White,
David Brockington
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781032820033
ISBN 10: 1032820039
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
,
Adult education
,
Primary
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
New Preface to the Reissue. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction: Setting the Scene. Part One: The ROSLA Project 1. The Fifth-Form College Club 2. A Theory of Approach 3. One Year with a Group Part Two: Towards a Survival Curriculum 4. Expressiveness 5. Participation 6. Self-Sufficiency and Self-Reliance 7. Situations, Vacant Part Three: Resources 8. ROSLA Project Resources: A Do-It-Yourself Guide 9. A Programme for Teacher and Social Worker Training 10. Summary. Appendix 1: Advice on Courses, Approaches and Materials for Use with Groups. Appendix 2: What They Say: Comments by ‘Graduates’ from the ROSLA Project.
Roger White and David Brockington
Reviews for In and Out of School: The ROSLA Community Education Project
Review for the original edition: ‘This book will give welcome reassurance to those of us who want to help schools change for the better without destroying their present virtues … an entertaining and thought-provoking book to read.’ – Dr W. A. Gatherer, Education.
