Re: drive-thru education (not)

nate (schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:29:08 -0600

No, Phil I think you are pretty well on track. We in the U.S,
at least in the progressive (haha) state of Wisconsin are
continually using corporate models or language in the spirit of
educational reform. The argument is we as educators need to
look at students as clients and such. There seems to be some
sort of de-evolution all over. Traditional forms of assistance
to the poor is continually being abandoned. There certainly
seems to be a paradigmn shift ocurring and it isn't very nice.
It just brings Dewey up all over again with his warnings of the
industrial revolution and the corporate models of education in
his time. Don't worry its not you, but the world that is going
crazy.

Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Graham <pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au>
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: drive-thru education (not)

>At 15:57 25-11-98 +0100, Eva wrote:
>>At 21.38 +1100 98-11-25, Phil Graham wrote:
>>>heaps of stuff written about commodified education
>>
>>As I haven't read those heaps, I suddenly wonder if it says
anything that
>>reflects back to the economic perspective of an eternal chain
of exchange
>>values, where consumption is just the withdrawal of an
exchange value from
>>the circulation, a vanishing. Forgetting the real-ization of
the use value.
>>Which is where the neutral equivalues may, when unpacked
(unpredictably)
>>convert in divergences towards opposites of construction and
destruction.
>>Not at all a vanishing, but something borh risky and
potentially
>>productive... The educational context made me think...
>
>I hope, then, that things are different where you are. Here,
our education
>system is in a state of deterioration because of its
increasingly
>corporate-values orientation and corporate-oriented curricula.
>
>Other Aussies on the list might well disagree with me. If so,
I'd love to
>hear about positive developments to the contrary anywhere else
in our fine
>country.
>
>Phil
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>Phil Graham
>pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au
>http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8314/index.html
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