My glob of spastic ranting waiting in an email draft form is too much of a mess to present here.
I'll leave you with one image, a metaphor for our typically stunted agency:
Schooled Fleas
If you think this metaphor captures our current state of affairs, then you're thinking like I'm thinking.
Before Training
Before Gaining Control
When fleas are captured to be used in a flea circus, they are placed in a relatively shallow jar with a lid.
After a few hours of attempting to jump high in different directions, trying to follow their individual agendas of powerful agency, they gradually reach a condition called learned helplessness.
By the time they reach learned helplessness, you can take the lid off and they never again jump any higher than the height of the shallow jar.
Metaphorical link to society:
Each school grade level is a shallow jar. Grade level teachers are the lid.
Questions:
Is flea circus schooling happening now?
Cui bono?
What increases agency?
What education is possible for the well-schooled population?
What assumptions or habits of thinking have been drummed into us?
Leon, Lluvias,
My glob of spastic ranting waiting in an email draft form is too much of a mess to present here.
I'll leave you with one image, a metaphor for our typically stunted agency:
Schooled Fleas
If you think this metaphor captures our current state of affairs, then you're thinking like I'm thinking.
Before Training
Before Gaining Control
When fleas are captured to be used in a flea circus, they are placed in a relatively shallow jar with a lid.
After a few hours of attempting to jump high in different directions, trying to follow their individual agendas of powerful agency, they gradually reach a condition called learned helplessness.
By the time they reach learned helplessness, you can take the lid off and they never again jump any higher than the height of the shallow jar.
Metaphorical link to society:
Each school grade level is a shallow jar. Grade level teachers are the lid.
Questions:
Is flea circus schooling happening now?
Cui bono?
What increases agency?
What education is possible for the well-schooled population?
What assumptions or habits of thinking have been drummed into us?
How do we drum them out?
Love & Laughter
mark spark
PS
I got more but this is probably already too much.
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I am thick with questions and ideas. I need more words...
I'll be back...