TY - BOOK AU - Barrow,Robin TI - Radical education: a critique of free schooling and deschooling SN - 9780415695879 U1 - 370.903 BAR PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Education KW - Aims and objectives KW - Philosophy KW - Educational innovations KW - Free schools N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This volume is a comprehensive critique of the radical tradition in educational theory. It traces the development of the key ideas in radical literature from Rousseau to the present day. Two opening chapters set Rousseau's educational views and arguments in their political perspective, and subject them to an extended critical treatment. Subsequent chapters provide detailed analyses and examination of the ideas of A S Neill, Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer, Charles Weingartner and Neil Postman. Each author is treated separately but certain common themes and ideas are extracted ER -