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Deschooling:

Deschooling is mainly accredited to Ivan Illich, who felt that the traditional schooling children received needed to be reconstructed. He believed that schools contained a “hidden curriculum” that caused learning to align with grades and accreditation rather than important skills. Holt was another thinker who believed in deschooling. His thoughts were closely aligned with Illich because neither were convinced that school was the place that taught students everything they needed to know. Instead, they communicated that school was not the sole avenue for learning because students learn consistently. Therefore, deschooling wants society to recognize the balance that needs to occur within education. Illich and Holt saw schools being insufficient because of their focus on strictly doing "skill drill" instead of other ways of learning. Also, in Deschooling by Ivan Illich, they stated that schools were insufficient because they were curricular, and that improving one skill was related to another irrelevant task. For example, they stated class attendance determining the students ability to use the playground.

Article Evaluation:

Knife Game-


 * 1) The article information was relevant throughout. Their was not anything that distracted me. I enjoyed the diagrams of the motion people do for the knife game. Also, it was interesting to see where this game was seen in the media, such as television shows and movies.
 * 2) The article is mostly made of general information with a few personal stores of men who played the game. I think more updated information should be present, such as if the game is still being played.
 * 3) I think a aspect pf the multiple links could be changed because it was slightly distracting. Some links just seemed excessive and a term that most would know; therefore, I think only the unfamiliar words should be kept as links.

Tone:


 * 1) For the most part the article is neutral. However, their was two stories that gave experiences that heavily leaned toward the view that the game was dangerous and showed one's manhood.
 * 2) Although it had two stories that confirmed the dangerous risk of the game, the article also gave reason for why people partook in the game, its relatedness to games that girls do, different ways to play the game, and how it is seen in the media. Therefore, it gives a well-rounded view into this game, its function, and why kids decided to play it. As a result, I did not feel that a viewpoint was overrepresented or underrepresented.

Citations:

All of the links worked and were relative to the article and its topic.

Many of the information and sources are books. Therefore, the sources did seem reliable and ones that backed up the topic of the article. However, there was a few websites and magazine articles that could be changed to a more credited source. However, most of the sources did depict itself as neutral and stating multiple perspectives.

Talk Page:

The talk page talked about the images the article used and any updates that one found. For example, someone communicated that the song the article mentioned had been updated. Also, the writer of the articles own changes to his/her article. I did like how the writer commented about suggested updates or if something was deleted and asking why. Their is no rating yet and part of the wikiproject. It is different because it gives less viewpoints/arguments to the writers claim.

Article Evaluation:

Alternative School

I would add more of the downsides of alternative school. Also, some graphics that give a pictorial representation of how alternative schools look.

The article is relevant to the topic. It stays on the topic of alternative school and even gives global examples of different type of alternative schools around the world. I felt that each view and how it is run in other places was represented fairly. Nothing seemed to be overrepresented or underrepresented. I did find a neutral representation of the information. Yes because references to other things either have a direct link or a reference where the information was found. The citations did seem reliable because it came from encyclopedias or scholarly journals. Their was some news places, which isn't the greatest citation; however, I was pleased to see that they were from credible news sources, such as the Huffington Post. I could research the pros and cons of alternative school to add to the pros and mention some of alternative school's less appealing aspects.

SAGE encyclopedia

Any scholarly reviewed journals

DAP book

Deschooling:

The article is heavily plagiarized. Therefore, it would be smart to start from scratch for the article. The sources are not unreliable; however, they were not used in a ethical way because most sentences were word for word. Citations had to be added for whole sections. The source is neutral because the information is not leaning towards a certain side; however, the information is all plagiarized.

Ideas for what to have in the article:

start with how deschooling got started and the meaning of deschooling

Include information that says how it differs from the traditional schooling and its effectiveness when compared to the traditional school.

Mention of the benefits of deschooling and some of the disadvantages children might experience when doing deschooling.

==Main Article Contribution: Deschooling==

Background 

Deschooling is mainly accredited to Ivan Illich, who felt that the traditional schooling children received needed to be reconstructed. He believed that schools contained a “hidden curriculum” that caused learning to align with grades and accreditation rather than important skills. Illich believed that the modern school is grounded on a foundation that is focused on growing schools as an industrialized system. Rather than focusing on the needs of the children, it is more heavily focused on the aggrandizement of the school system. Illich believed that the school system has formed a toxic industry that specializes in what families should be capable of forming themselves, namely education. Since schools align success on paper with academic excellence, he believed that schools, grades, and diplomas give false assumptions that the students have become knowledgeable in a certain educational concept.

John Holt was another thinker who believed in deschooling. He impressed his thoughts on society by emphasizing that the state "has made education its business—and indeed as far as many people are concerned, its monopoly". His thoughts were closely aligned with Illich because neither were convinced that school was the place that taught students everything they needed to know. Instead, they communicated that school was not the sole avenue for learning because students learn consistently through other facets. Therefore, deschooling wants society to recognize the balance that needs to occur within education. Illich and Holt saw schools being insufficient because of their focus on strictly doing "skill drill" instead of other ways of learning. Also, in Deschooling by Ivan Illich, they stated that schools were insufficient because they were curricular, and that improving one skill was related to another irrelevant task. For example, they stated class attendance determining the students ability to use the playground.

What Would a Deschooling Society Look Like?

Though the name appears daunting, "deschooling" a person does not mean disregarding the act of learning or studying in schools. Many subjects and topics, such as art, dance, language, and music, may be most beneficial to learn in a school setting. A deschooling society would ensure that everybody has his or her own decision as to whether or not they go to school. Rather than being forced to go to school, take a test before entering a school, be denied the opportunity to learn a desired topic, people would be free to choose how they learn. According to John Holt, an advocate for deschooling, "a deschooled society would be a society in which everyone shall have the widest and freest possible choice to learn whatever he wants to learn, whether in school or in some altogether different way."

Today

Deschooling is currently being tested in several Third World countries.

-MadisonLiggio & Emilychingle

References:
Routray, S. (2012). 'Deschooling society': The legacy of ivan illich. Contemporary education dialouge, 9(1), 85-104. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/097318491100900105

Illich, I. (1973). Deschooling society. Retrieved from http://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1970_deschooling.html#1