[Xmca-l] Re: useful psychology?

[robsub@ariadne.org.uk]

Does this not reflect capitalism's educational contradiction? We want to 
produce profitable workers who think and use their intiative to further 
the interests of the owners. But we don't want them to think and use 
their initiative when it comes to challenging the employment or 
environmental practices of the owners. So we construct a compromise that 
being able to think is a good thing as long as you think in certain 
highly structured ways, hence all the testing and tick boxing that 
surrounds education (certainly in the UK). Meanwhile we distract them 
wth the smoke and mirrors of consumerism. (And are failing now to come 
up with a distraction that will not cause the planet to burn.)

Rob

On 16/01/2020 16:13, Alfredo Jornet Gil wrote:
> Although I think that today’s school curricula in most countries are 
> quite explicit on the importance of the “adaptable thinking skills” 
> that you refer to, rather than on educating for jobs (although I can 
> see that is still the underlying assumption). You can read about those 
> skills in the so-called XXIst century skills, very extended in recent 
> educational reforms (including critical thinking skills, creativity, 
> collaborative skills, digital skills…).

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