.... The
>orientation to order would seem to me to work against the ideals expressed
>on xmca over the past few months in the discussion on coerciveness--I would
>say (without sounding patronizing, I hope) that such students view the
>constraints of order as *facilitative* in the sense described by Valsiner.
>Yet Western discussions of how education should ideally be would appear to
>involve the same imperialism that Mahathir finds in American international
>politics--imagine, for instance, how we'd respond if a Malaysian lectured us
>on the need for greater teacher and administrative control over Western
>schools.
.... One perspective on Mahathir
>is that, by defending "order", he keeps himself firmly in power--yet this
>may be a Western perspective on a different type of society. A second point
>is that, in some way, the arrangement "works." But then so did the
>antebellum American South.
>
>I find these questions so interesting because I see no immediate way to
>think about them. Any thoughts?
>
>Peter
>