Co-operative Schools: building communities in the 21st century
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 54 Number 2 (2012)
Co-operative Schools: building communities in the 21st century
TOM WOODIN pages 327-340
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2012.54.2.327
Abstract
The recent progress of 'co-operative schools' both confirms and disrupts many assumptions surrounding contemporary compulsory schooling. The term itself refers to an eclectic array of schools, both primary and secondary, of which there were, by June 2012, almost 300 in England that have adopted co-operative values, in terms of governance, pedagogy and curriculum, and come together as a movement. They have emerged from within a fissiparous ecology of education which has given rise to new schools and networks, including academy schools, converter academies, free schools, trust schools and specialised schools. In this article the author argues that these changes have all offered opportunities for co-operative alternatives to be established.
To cite this article
TOM WOODIN (2012) Co-operative Schools: building communities in the 21st century, FORUM, 54(2), 327-340. https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2012.54.2.327