These days of customization and decentralization frankly are beginning to
scare me. Maybe its too many x-files, I don't know, but in this age of
neo-liberalism I am very concerned where the path is leading. Many, me
included, question the road of modernism, but I don't think the road of
neo-liberalism is the path either. We are deconstructing, decentering the
foundation modernism has been build upon which has the potential for
something to emerge that could be very scary. As Phil reminded us the
Third Reich started out as the Third Way in which so much of this
neoliberalism is based upon.
Nate
----- Original Message -----
From: Diane HODGES <dchodges who-is-at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: <xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Campaign Against Public Schools
> At 22:11 5/17/99, nate wrote:
>
> -in response to what Jay wrote:
> >> Nate makes some good points about the balance between discourses of
> >public
> >> accountability and those of individual choice.
>
> some of nat's response [i.e. snipping]:
>
> >Public education in contrast
> >to choice and vulgar individualism, whatever its form, implies a
societal
> >responsibility that is so needed today. Mass production gave people
steady
> >jobs, a good union, security etc. in which many would gladly take back
in
> >place of customized production. While we need to acknowledge the
economic
> >sphere we ought not become it. It seems to me customized production in
the
> >economic sphere makes a rather strong argument for the need for strong
> >public education in the social sphere.
>
> nate -
>
> there is no way that i can see any schooling structure NOT being
determined
> by the economic, and so turning to customization as a probability, what
> can we do with it that is transgressive?
> we decentralize - de-institutionalize - begin the work of integrating
> child and adult lives more, speaking of accountability and social
> responsibility, surely the inclusion of children in social life is
> one way to encourage us all to behave.
>
> abolish compulsory schooling, damn the false public/private diversion and
> start writing policy that outlines the ethics of the inevitable
> customization and decentralization of "schooling" -
>
> start up funding tba
> ha ha
> diane
>
> """"""""""""""""""""""" """""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> When she walks,
> the revolution's coming.
> In her hips, there's revolution.
> When she talks, I hear revolution.
> In her kiss, I taste the revolution.
> (poem by Kathleen Hanna: Riot Grrl)
> ******************************************
> diane celia hodges
> university of british columbia
> faculty of graduate studies,
> centre for the study of curriculum and instruction,
> vancouver, british columbia, canada
>
>