In Praise of Illegible Learning: Reasons for and Difficulties of Challenging Artificially-Ordered Schooling
The history of American k-12 schooling can be best understood as an attempt to make illegible processes legible – that is, a process of taking informal and often localized educational practices and reorganizing them in a more formalized way so that they can be standardized and understood by those no...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nipissing University
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning |
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| Online Access: | https://jual.nipissingu.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2020/02/v13263.pdf |
| Summary: | The history of American k-12 schooling can be best understood as an attempt to make illegible processes legible – that is, a process of taking informal and often localized educational practices and reorganizing them in a more formalized way so that they can be standardized and understood by those not involved in those processes. Conversely, self-directed forms of education (such as unschooling and “free”/democratic schooling), are best seen as reactions against this trend toward legibility, as attempts to reintroduce illegibility into the learning process. |
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| ISSN: | 1916-8128 1916-8128 |