Re: [xmca] off-topic (dictating political ideology for public school instruction)

[Helen Grimmett <helen.grimmett@education.monash.edu.au>]

Yes, but won't it be interesting to see what political ideology is 
contained in the draft of the Australian National Curriculum due to be 
released tomorrow! Is it possible for government dictated curriculum 
not to be political?

Me thinks a media broohaha is a-brewing...
Helen

----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010 9:55 pm
Subject: Re: [xmca] off-topic (dictating political ideology for public 
school instruction)
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>

> You know, Marx was really clear on this question. Public 
> schools should not teach politics, even socialism.
> 
> 
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1869/educa
tion-speech.htm
> 
> Do the kids get free membership of the Repubican Party when 
> they graduate?
> Andy
> 
> 
> Tony Whitson wrote:
> > Although this is not on topic, some may be interested in a 
> resolution 
> > that has actually been passed by the South Dakota legislature, 
> that 
> > reads in part:
> > 
> > NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives 
> of the 
> > Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the 
> Senate 
> > concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that 
> > instruction in the public schools relating to global warming 
> include the 
> > following:
> > (1)    That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a 
> proven 
> > fact;
> > (2)    That there are a variety of climatological, 
> meteorological, 
> > astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological 
> dynamics that 
> > can effect world weather phenomena and that the significance and 
> > interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative ...
> > 
> > See
> > http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/south-dakota-climate-
> change/> 
> > Tony Whitson
> > UD School of Education
> > NEWARK  DE  19716
> > 
> > twhitson@udel.edu
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> >  are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
> >                   -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
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