As a movement of thought, are we able to embrace this dynamic way of educational philosophy?
nick , I am afraid I am quite cynical about the current trend and praxis of education replete with superficiality, bias, greed, corruption and what not , enormous heroic effort s are needed to foster critical thinking, and other higher order cognitive competencies,
bitterly ironically , students are disenfranchised disempowered and manipulated into mainstream sociopolitical agendas, they have to toe the line , jump the bandwagon of shallowness to succeed in their educational endeavor :
one my poems on ''poemhunter"" :
Who'D Like To Be A University Student? - Poem by Ali Rahimi
After untold gloomy hours of studies and concentration,
Chained to textbooks, pamphlets and notes,
A zestful arduous academic immersion,
For the tedious sterile matriculation,
Has to spend a fortune, yes, costly registration,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Assigned to the dingy small rooms of a dormitory,
Packed like sardines with other young inmates in misery, in a penitentiary,
Some ten sad souls confined in stinking dungeons, pathetic scenery,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The meals never succulent, not for manhood,
Yucky stews, rotten bread, plain rice, canned food,
Like war soldiers having their C-Ration in bad mood,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Teachers, personification of fear and intimidation,
Abuse, foolhardy, and manipulation,
Exams, pistols of revenge, fright and repression,
Targeting students’ brains, hearts, and imagination,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Textbooks, lucrative business for the academic mafia kingdom,
Classes, cubicles of stress, anxiety, and boredom,
Not havens of insight inspiration and freedom,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The campus, the hub of control, and intrusion,
Yes, dress codes, behavior codes, make up code,
Relationship codes, discourse codes,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Yes, a degree is granted, congratulations!
And the ‘’ happy ‘’ graduate is smoking
Cheap cigarettes in parks, corroding,
Or in shopping malls, melancholically wandering , fanaticizing,
Wearing worn-out shoes, uselessly job hunting,
Or joining the army with disillusionment and frustration,
A regular insignificant soldier under command, ceaselessly aimlessly marching,
Salute sergeant!
But he is basking in the academic title, gee wheeze!
Who’d like to be a university student?
amazing question Nick,
the profundity, creativity and critical attitude of post structuralism may not be harmonious with the egotistic insular attitudes of some policy makers . Poststructuralists like Derrida, Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard's iconoclastic attitude to philosophy are more often than not misperceived and misdirected and libled as utterly cynical anarchist and nihilistic,hence they erroneously presumably create a sense of melancholic anguish among students.
what's more, some scholars affiliating themselves with poststructural critical existential ideology are themselves indoctrinating binary mutually exclusive categories of US vs Them, black vs white, ,,,
Dear Rahimi, thank you for your comprehensive response - it is this egoistic insular attitude that we must overcome to provide, I think, a 'real education' for our children; one that values the individual, not simply, as you quite rightly illustrated 'the indoctrination of binary mutually exclusive categories.'
nick , I am afraid I am quite cynical about the current trend and praxis of education replete with superficiality, bias, greed, corruption and what not , enormous heroic effort s are needed to foster critical thinking, and other higher order cognitive competencies,
bitterly ironically , students are disenfranchised disempowered and manipulated into mainstream sociopolitical agendas, they have to toe the line , jump the bandwagon of shallowness to succeed in their educational endeavor :
one my poems on ''poemhunter"" :
Who'D Like To Be A University Student? - Poem by Ali Rahimi
After untold gloomy hours of studies and concentration,
Chained to textbooks, pamphlets and notes,
A zestful arduous academic immersion,
For the tedious sterile matriculation,
Has to spend a fortune, yes, costly registration,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Assigned to the dingy small rooms of a dormitory,
Packed like sardines with other young inmates in misery, in a penitentiary,
Some ten sad souls confined in stinking dungeons, pathetic scenery,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The meals never succulent, not for manhood,
Yucky stews, rotten bread, plain rice, canned food,
Like war soldiers having their C-Ration in bad mood,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Teachers, personification of fear and intimidation,
Abuse, foolhardy, and manipulation,
Exams, pistols of revenge, fright and repression,
Targeting students’ brains, hearts, and imagination,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Textbooks, lucrative business for the academic mafia kingdom,
Classes, cubicles of stress, anxiety, and boredom,
Not havens of insight inspiration and freedom,
Who’d like to be a university student?
The campus, the hub of control, and intrusion,
Yes, dress codes, behavior codes, make up code,
Relationship codes, discourse codes,
Who’d like to be a university student?
Yes, a degree is granted, congratulations!
And the ‘’ happy ‘’ graduate is smoking
Cheap cigarettes in parks, corroding,
Or in shopping malls, melancholically wandering , fanaticizing,
Wearing worn-out shoes, uselessly job hunting,
Or joining the army with disillusionment and frustration,
A regular insignificant soldier under command, ceaselessly aimlessly marching,
Salute sergeant!
But he is basking in the academic title, gee wheeze!
Who’d like to be a university student?
Nick, i am glad you can feel the sentiment and frustration ,
I have shared some thirty of my poems on Researchgate titled :
The black swan is hovering over us
History, frightening nightmare or beautiful dream
How are you dealing with your demons ?
cheers mate
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