nate - thanks. i am not proposing decentralization as the desirable
option, so much as recognizing that what this thread has indicated is
that politically, little has changed that might
offer a mature conception of what education is for - because
decentralization as a governing structure is fragmenting into the corporate
structure,
independent education is more feasible: with the good, yes comes the
bad: but i suppose i understand social responsibility to be part of
accepting how the social forces are twisting social conscience, and
begin the smaller-scaled work of building the alternatives.
just as there are those willing to find the Gunz Iz All Th' Larning' Ya Needz
Academy;
there are others who would fund more open-education concepts of
knowledge, ethics, and responsibility. we cannot control everyone
nor can everyone be controlled. this discussion has emphasized a
kind of
:o woe what can we do?:
tone, perhaps i have misunderstood; but o what realistically is to be done?
thanks nate
diane
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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)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia
faculty of graduate studies,
centre for the study of curriculum and instruction,
vancouver, british columbia, canada