Stern, Julian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4126-0100 and Samiei, Catherine (2018) Novel Theorising: Lessons from School-Like Literature. Other Education: The Journal of Educational Alternatives, 7 (2). pp. 22-37.

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Abstract

Literature provides a unique creative space for theorising education, and in particular for describing in appropriately richly ambiguous ways the complexity of education lived out in contemporary schooling. This is an exploration of three novels by Golding, Tolkien, and Barrie. These novels are represented as examples of school-like literature illustrating contrasting theories of education. Dyadic models of schooling are exemplified by Golding’s Lord of the Flies; cyclical models of schooling are exemplified by Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy exemplifies both models, providing both a critique and a defence of childhood as needing to be controlled and childhood as a kind of apprenticeship in adulthood.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/3526

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