CAN VIRTUE BE TAUGHT - ESPECIALLY THESE DAYS

The politics and pedagogy of schooling are becoming more authoritarian , coercive and utilitarian. Reactionary ideologies dressed and patched up with new managerialism (already moribund in the market place) are supplanting progessivist ideas. Even in its own cramped terms the Mew model will not work. But educationalists should not be content to oppo se it with nostalgic stories. Progressivism was always at a loss to cr am its ideals within the geography, architecture and timetable of a sc hool day. It is the very structure and context of schooling that needs overhaul.