In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls. The local residents protested, and when this failed occupied the school and for a year ran it themselves with the help of volunteer teachers. Phil Carspecken was one of those volunteers, and this book tells the story of that year of community schooling. The period was marked by intense conflict among the members of the militant action committee running the school, and attempts by far Left political organizations to take over the movement. At the same time, traditional teaching methods within the school were gradually modified to reflect the culture and aspirations of the working class community which used it. Carspecken places all these events within a framework of sociological interpretation, developing throughout the book a new theory of "intersubjectivity" and its relation to power, and he concludes with an assessment of the lessons of Croxteth for schooling in other deprived urban communities, not only in the UK but also in the rest of Europe and in the United States.

Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The Battle for Croxteth Comprehensive School

Education & Teaching

Apple, Michael W.

Carspecken, Phil Francis

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

What is the nature of meaningful action and its relationship to power, truth, desire, and the self? How are meaning and truth related to the phenomenological body? Where do postmodern insights coherently intersect with the perspective of critical theory, and where are postmodernists and criticalists in fundamental disagreement? Carspecken explores these and other questions within the four essays of this book. His investigations are timely and relevant to all who have an interest in the philosophy of critical theory, social theory, cultural studies, and methodologies for social research.

Four Scenes for Posing the Question of Meaning and Other Essays in Critical Philosophy and Critical Methodology

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)

In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls. The local residents protested, and when this failed occupied the school and for a year ran it themselves with the help of volunteer teachers. Phil Carspecken was one of those volunteers, and this book, first published in 1991, tells the stor

Social Sciences

In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls. The local residents protested, and when this failed occupied the school and for a year ran it themselves with the help of volunteer teachers. Phil Carspecken was one of those volunteers, and this book, first published in 1991, tells the stor

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Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The Battle for Croxteth Comprehensive School

Four Scenes for Posing the Question of Meaning and Other Essays in Critical Philosophy and Critical Methodology

Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)

Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive (Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education)