Aspiring to Create New Habits of Mind and Mental Models Suitable for A New...
As far as I know no one from MIT or Harvard stood on the banks of the Charles River holding a rally to jettison what the Systems Thinkers on both campuses call the “dominant rational/experimental...
View ArticleWho Needs Pitchforks to Get Political and Economic Revolution? Education and...
Back during a previous coordinated stealth assault on our economy and political structures, Professor Benjamin Barber published a Clarion Call book called A Place For Us: How to Make Society Civil and...
View ArticleTargeting How Students See the World So They Will Feel An Irresistible...
As I have charted through the economic or political or ecological visions of the future that underlie all these ed reforms, I keep mentioning the lack of knowledge. The insistence that being able to...
View ArticleCan an Education Degree Authorize Bait and Switch Political Insurrections...
No I am not talking about a car loan. And I am also not picking on teachers. Truthfully we could substitute a psychology, sociology, anthropology, or even a legal degree in the place of the education...
View ArticleStudents Must See Themselves as Active Participants in Social Change and...
Before I tell you where that quote came from and what the connection is to the Gordon Commission, I want to go back in time first. I did what I frequently do when presented with troubling declarations...
View ArticleMisportraying the Conspiracy Covers Up the Broader Plans of Political and...
Most of the reporting I saw of last summer’s celebration of 20 years of Sustainability and Agenda 21 (so not an urban legend) at Rio de Janeiro viewed it as a failure because “no definitive agreement...
View ArticleTreating Western Society and its Economy as a Train in Need of Rebuilding and...
When you get down deep into the aspirations on using education to shift the West away from its historic focus on individuals and economic freedom to considering new, untried forms of organizing...
View ArticleManipulating the Inner, Psychological Aspects of What Makes Each Student Tick...
To any Broader Cultural Transformation. At this point I tend to take an understanding of the work of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School for granted as a tool for analyzing sought changes through...
View ArticleAssessing Deep Knowledge to Monitor Whether Theory is Guiding What Will be...
Now you can just imagine the popular outcry if the Common Core and its integral 21st Century Skills were being sold as a shift to Abraham Maslow’s Eupsychian education. That would certainly make the...
View ArticleCircumscribing Knowledge: Part 2 of Imposing Mindsets to Fit a New Political...
Back in the 1960s during the era of both the Cold War and the Vietnam War and thus dramatically different circumstances, we still find the foundations of the sought social, political, and economic...
View ArticleTranslating the Off-Putting Term Dialectical Materialism and Discovering the...
And if ALL classrooms, preschool through graduate school, is not sufficiently alarming, how about in ALL students and teachers and professors and administrators? Plus with a little luck, and using...
View ArticleTackling the Dilemmas of Collective Action Requires a Shared Cognitive Base:...
You know if we were radical political schemers or simply bureaucrats or politicians addicted to Other People’s Money, and the ordinary people we wanted to have behave as we wished were resisting our...
View ArticleIdentifying Education Globally as the Crucial Lever for Nonconsensual...
It is one thing to know that education is now a weapon, and another to discover there has been an expensive, calculated frenzy in the last few years to use social science theory, specifically cited as...
View ArticleControlling Consciousness and Planning Society Via Politicalism-a New Helpful...
Before I turn the term-Politicalism-into the most apt metaphor since Axemakers Mind for describing the true intent behind K-12 education reforms, let me offer up some timely quotes on controlling...
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