JAY.
PS. The questions raised are perhaps the tip of an important iceberg ...
below the waterline are such basic issues as how to evaluate progress or
learning or development when there are no well-defined goals set in
advance, when criteria have to be case-specific, and agendas are emergent.
Most evaluation paradigms begin to founder when they are not anchored in
the projects of the Great Sorting (i.e. don't serve the primary function of
determining how good we are at following orders, solving problem set for us
by others, or achieving goals determined by others). The iceberg is
dangerous because it lies squarely in the shipping lanes of capitalist
funding for worthwhile educational projects.
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JAY L. LEMKE
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
<http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/index.htm>
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