Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Wat zou Calvinistisch & Katholiek Nederland hiervan denken?

Groet / Cees

PS. Las recent dat er MAAR 50 openbare scholen zijn in HEEL Limburg ;)
En daar staan er dan nog een paar van onder controle van een
overkoepelend Katholiek bestuur!
Leuk onderwerp voor een statistisch onderzoek, spreiding van Openbare
scholen in relatie tot andere denominaties.

Alex Khost wrote:
> Woty wrote: "...the Sudbury model has nothing to do with opposing
> capitalism."
>
> Ironically, I've just started researching/theorizing on this topic as
> part of a larger dissertation and have respectfully come to the
> opposite conclusion: non-coercive education (Sudbury education as well
> as others, such as democratic free education, humanist education,
> etc.) opposes the idea of Capitalism (most likely, unintentionally/
> unconsciously in most cases, I would guess?) by tying learning to free-
> will, as opposed to the conventional schooling method which implements
> a curriculum and daily routine meant to reflect that of the
> "productive" worker, an environment that the student will face once
> they graduate from school and move on to the "real" world.
>
> Karl Marx (who was instead consciously opposing Capitalism) declared
> that labor in a Capitalistic culture alienates the worker from his/her
> work by making them an abstract part of the corporate progression-- as
> opposed to Marxism, where the worker works based on personal need. So
> too, conventional schooling alienates the learner from what they are
> learning through standardized curricula, strict schedules, etc. as
> part of the academic progression-- as opposed to non-coercive
> education, where the learner learns based on personal interest and
> desire. Just as Captialism uses gross domestic product as the
> measuring stick to define progress, conventional schooling uses the
> curriculum, neither of which have any relation to the individual (or
> gross national happiness, etc.) And so, the sheer fact that non-
> coercive education denounces the curriculum (among other conventional
> schooling techniques) means that it is in opposition to Capitalism. In
> other words, it is in opposition, if for no other reason, because if
> you change the way the learner learns, you change the way they measure
> progress and meaning.
>
> Do others agree? Does anyone know of any references/research on this
> topic?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>

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