Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.49.2(98).3
Criticism of Institutional Education in the Thought of Ivan Illich
Bernard Hostić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0541-2912
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The article examines Ivan Illich’s institutional education criticism. Illich was a worldfamous thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He implemented his social criticism ideas in many areas of modern society: medicine, education, ecology, business ethics, and gender. The elaboration of the text consists of four parts. The first part focuses on Illich’s understanding of institutions; the »idea of alienation« underlies almost all his observations and criticisms. The second part provides an overview of the main elements of Illich’s criticism of schooling and thus forms the backbone of the entire work. The third part presents possible solutions, i.e., ideas for realization presented in his works and essays. The fourth part contains a comparison of Illich’s pedagogy with the increasingly popular Waldorf way of education, from which possible links with the ideas of Rudolf Steiner emerge. The goal of the article is to conclude on the value and actuality of Illich’s thoughts related to institutional education based on the criticism and ideas discussed.
Keywords
alternative teaching methods; society; Ivan Illich; curriculum; pedagogy; school system; social criticism; social theory; Waldorf pedagogy
Hrčak ID:
311320
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Publication date:
14.12.2023.
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