tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post383516086126445704..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Move Aside, Piven and Cloward—The New Evil Genius is Paulo FreireUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-61844669174941962332010-05-15T13:29:51.840-04:002010-05-15T13:29:51.840-04:00The title and the name of the author is all he nee...The title and the name of the author is all he needs. Since the people he represents don't study pedagogy, and don't take these classes, he can pretty much say what he wants. "Everyone knows" what goes on in these classes anyway. Kids just learn about the collectivist mindset...Instead the apparently non-ideological belief that through luck and pluck and avoiding rum, we're all middle class.<br /><br />Saul Alinsky played the same role just last year. But he was more of a public intellectual type than Freire whose book is rather dense. <br /><br />This seems more to be the fruits of a conspiracy theory that has already taken hold rather than one that is budding. Everybody already knows what these kids are being taught. The conspiracy is how everybody came to know it.<br /><br />I haven't heard anything new here that I didn't hear 20 years ago during the culture wars while the "studies" were being established. And a lot of this sounds like the arguments that used to be made by Young Republicans. (Who are the real Nazis? They claim they have an open mind, but why don't they allow us to invite white supremacists to campus? Where's white studies? A Disease of Political Correctness is Destroying the Country!) The Bell Curve. The Closing of the American Mind. Illiberal Education. Tenured Radicals. Gosh, don't we ever settle anything? I guess the answer is no, and I will need to dust off a copy of Greywolf Annual 5. Welcome to 1992. <br /><br />The difference between Alinsky last year is that by mentioning Freire as a textbook, what he really means is that it is a foundational text taught in education departments at universities, much like Dewey. My guess is that that is where we get to go next in Arizona. Tenure is such a quaint concept, what with so many people unemployed and all. Why shouldn't the public have a say in what is being taught? Mind if we take a look at the books you've been assigning?Suffern AChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03744649280608955375noreply@blogger.com