Masturbatory Dreams of Education for Ameliorating “X”: Power and Privilege to Professional Educators Increased Madhu Suri Prakash, Dana L. Stuchul*

Year 2015, Volume: 3 Issue: 30, 53 - 63, 03.12.2015

Madhu Prakash Dana L. Stuchul

Abstract

20. yüzyılın en büyük düşünürü Ivan Illich, tüm modern mesleklerin arkeolojisini kaleme almıştır. Bu çaba, onun en az anlaşılan ve çoğunlukla da göz ardı edilen eseri Okulsuz Toplum’daki eğitim kuruluşları yorumunda başlamıştır. Illich’in 21. Yüzyıl için güncelliğini anlamak adına “Kendini Tatmin Edici Hayaller”, Okulsuz Toplum-sonrası yorumlarına sert bir giriştir.

20. yüzyılın en büyük düşünürü Ivan Illich, tüm modern mesleklerin arkeolojisini kaleme almıştır. Bu çaba, onun en az anlaşılan ve çoğunlukla da göz ardı edilen eseri Okulsuz Toplum’daki eğitim kuruluşları yorumunda başlamıştır. Illich’in 21. Yüzyıl için güncelliğini anlamak adına “Kendini Tatmin Edici Hayaller”, Okulsuz Toplum-sonrası yorumlarına sert bir giriştir.

Keywords

Ivan Illich, radikal sosyal düşünce, eğitim felsefesi/sosyolojisi, meslekler, Meslekî hegemony

Masturbatory Dreams of Education for Ameliorating “X”: Power and Privilege to Professional Educators Increased Madhu Suri Prakash, Dana L. Stuchul*

Abstract

The greatest radical thinker of the 20th century, Ivan Illich, wrote the archaeology of all the modern professions. This began with his exegesis of the educational enterprise in Deschooling Society which few understood and most dismissed. To understand Illich’s 21st century relevance, “Masturbatory Dreams” is one piercing entry into his reflections post-Deschooling Society. It’s time, past time, we believe, to begin again the conversation about dreams. About the dreams for a world—in the words of the Zapatistas, “the many worlds”—our hearts know to be possible. Dreams, not delusions, not utopias, but visions toward which our lives could strive. It’s our dreams we owe ourselves. Our dreams we owe our children.

Keywords

Ivan Illich, radical social thought, philosophy/sociology of education, professions, professional hegemony

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