Mike wrote:
> .... A question from my perspective (and a theme of the Oxford symposium)
> was the FUTURE of education. I think it would be really intresting to
> think about what a spiral of development that reintegrated schooling
> with enculturation would look like. I take this to be impulse behind
> glorifcations of apprenticeship and dreams of de-schooling. I
> symmpathize with the impulse but am unconvinced by exisiting demos.
> mike
>
Yes - one problem with glorification of apprenticeship etc. views is that
they seem to overlook the point that our current systems of schooling
are our current mode of enculturation. This does not mean that there
might not be space for other modes of schooling, but they will always
be at a disadvantage in some way (cost too much, users see them as
not relevant, not to mention more stringent forms of social
suppression) but that such alternative too will be conditioned by the
social order they attempt to confront or elide. (Glimpses of the AT
triangles in my mind here, but no time just now to work on them!)
Stephen
Stephen Gourlay, PhD; Principal Lecturer, Director of Doctoral Training,
Kingston Business School, Kingston University, Kingston Hill, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 7LB, UK
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