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Libertarian
Education (Lib Ed)
E-mail:
editors@libed.org.uk
Address: 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1
7QX, United Kingdom
Contact(s): Richard Musgrove, David Gribble
Website:
www.libed.org.uk
Founding Year: 1968
Description:
One of the main roles of LIB ED is to examine
the way this society educates its members.
Schools obviously play an important part in the
process of manufacturing docile people for the
shop-floor, office and market-place. So much of
our space will inevitably be devoted to analysis
of schooling. However, schools, because of their
very nature, do allow some scope for libertarian
teachers to have an influence counter to the
ideology of the school. LIB ED publicises and
encourages this work.
As well as forming an analysis of how things
are, we want to discuss how a non-patriarchal
anarchist society might educate, and to offer
examples of existing alternative education
projects which may give some clues, even if only
to what should be avoided.
But school is only one of the agents of
conformity, and, certainly plenty of learning
takes place outside of school. Part of our role,
then, is to look at non-institutional learning,
particularly at, for instance, the media, from
which we learn to have "acceptable" attitudes
and opinions.
Finally, the most difficult task must be to
suggest ways of changing what is into what might
be. We welcome the active participation of our
readers.
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