As Dewey made very clear, is not one of how to eliminate the school but of how to strike the right balance between formal and informal modes of education. And there was no doubt in his mind, and in ours today, that the balance has tipped disastrously onto the side of formal schooling.” (2017:16) In the light of what you have studied on this course, do you agree with Ingold?

Entries 3 – Learning Journal Prompts

In his short book, Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold argues that, “The question, as Dewey made very clear, is not one of how to eliminate the school but of how to strike the right balance between formal and informal modes of education. And there was no doubt in his mind, and in ours today, that the balance has tipped disastrously onto the side of formal schooling.” (2017:16) In the light of what you have studied on this course, do you agree with Ingold?