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 |  Subject: Tackling ‘Placetimematter’ -- Educational researchers study the darnedest things  Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:33 pm | |
| When last year’s PISA international school-test results revealed that United States public schools lagged further behind countries like Finland and Korea, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan declared that this “brutal truth . . . must serve as a wake-up call against educational complacency and low expectations.” Two weeks ago, roughly 20,000 researchers converged on Philadelphia to attend the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). With the best and brightest education researchers all in one place, I was eager to read about their ideas to put America’s public schools back on track.
As it turns out, that was just about the farthest thing from their minds. The conference’s program featured 134 panels on “Identity” and 104 on “Gender Studies.” “Reading” had a mere 85 panels and “Writing” had but 62. There were 67 panels on “Critical Theory” yet only 39 on “Critical Thinking.” “Postmodernism” had more panels than “Dropouts” (26 to 18), and “Post Colonial Theory” beat out “Continuing Education” by 17 to 1.
Reading and math scores are a bit prosaic next to the fare that concerned America’s educational experts, who listened to a presentation on “Neoliberal Globalisms and the Rebooting of Mankind’s Ideological Revolution.”
There was, of course, the token panel on “Marxian Analysis of Society, Schools, and Education,” but overall it seemed that for the education academy, Marx is out and Foucault is in. Not only was there a panel on “Foucault on Education,” there was also a panel on “Everybody but Foucault: How Alternative Poststructuralisms Operate in Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice.”
Normally, “Foucault” vs. “Everybody but Foucault” might seem an oppressively binary structure, but don’t worry. The “Everybody but Foucault” panel transgressed its own norms by featuring a paper on Foucault entitled “Foucault’s Matter: Education, Subjectivity, and Political Ecology.” And the true beauty of poststructuralist subjectivity is that Foucault need not be the only subject. Take, for instance, the educationally indispensible paper “A Poststructuralist Feminist Study of Three Chinese Women Academics’ Subjectivity and Agency. ”
It’s common enough to hear talk of feminist agency breaking barriers, but for the researchers at AERA, feminism seems to hold the promise of transcending space-time. Take, for instance, the panel on “The ‘Placetimematter’ of Generation in Feminist Qualitative Research.” (For what it’s worth, the feminist academics certainly broke a new barrier in the English language; Google shows no other instance, anywhere, of the word “Placetimematter.”) The panel featured the instant classic “What Might a Transnational (Queer) Daughter Make? Staking Claims to Feminism via Race, Space, and Time.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376147/tackling-placetimematter-max-eden |
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| | Subject: Re: Tackling ‘Placetimematter’ -- Educational researchers study the darnedest things Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:50 pm | |
| Idiots!
- Quote :
- Marx is out and Foucault is in
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RR Phantom
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| | Subject: Re: Tackling ‘Placetimematter’ -- Educational researchers study the darnedest things Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:51 pm | |
| | Thought you said you liked Foucault. |
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| | Subject: Re: Tackling ‘Placetimematter’ -- Educational researchers study the darnedest things Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:01 pm | |
| LOL, I do... his anti-government stuff...
Whereas the above leftist-junk-courses should be burned at the stake...
Along with its practitioners...
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