Comments on: If the world is changing, why am I studying about the guys that sent us down the wrong path? http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/if-the-world-is-changing-why-am-i-studying-about-the-guys-that-sent-us-down-the-wrong-path/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Best of Tony Karrer’s e-learning learning « Ramblings from Africa http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/if-the-world-is-changing-why-am-i-studying-about-the-guys-that-sent-us-down-the-wrong-path/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Best of Tony Karrer’s e-learning learning « Ramblings from Africa Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:05:57 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=316#comment-548 [...] If the world is changing, why am I studying about the guys that sent us down the wrong path?- Adventures in Corporate Education, October 10, 2009 [...] [...] If the world is changing, why am I studying about the guys that sent us down the wrong path?- Adventures in Corporate Education, October 10, 2009 [...]

]]> By: If the Gervais principle isn’t working, what is the ideal management structure | Adventures in Corporate Education http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/if-the-world-is-changing-why-am-i-studying-about-the-guys-that-sent-us-down-the-wrong-path/comment-page-1/#comment-537 If the Gervais principle isn’t working, what is the ideal management structure | Adventures in Corporate Education Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:51:46 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=316#comment-537 [...] few days ago I wrote about the history of management, and specifically the Gervais Principle.The Gervais Principle [...] [...] few days ago I wrote about the history of management, and specifically the Gervais Principle.The Gervais Principle [...]

]]> By: gminks http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/if-the-world-is-changing-why-am-i-studying-about-the-guys-that-sent-us-down-the-wrong-path/comment-page-1/#comment-521 gminks Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:42:14 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=316#comment-521 I have not been reading that - but thanks for the pointer! I have not been reading that – but thanks for the pointer!

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]]> By: Ellen http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/10/10/if-the-world-is-changing-why-am-i-studying-about-the-guys-that-sent-us-down-the-wrong-path/comment-page-1/#comment-519 Ellen Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:39:59 +0000 http://gminks.edublogs.org/?p=316#comment-519 Gina -- Have you by any chance read Stanley Aronowitz's "False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness"? Here's his assertion about the real purpose of schooling in the US (seems a start on the answer about the dismantling of how we learn): "What is learned in school -- even in vocational school -- is rarely related to specific industrial or commercial skills....Rather, students learn the skills needed to accommodate to the first requirement of industrial labor: respect for authority, the self-discipline necessary to internalize the values of the labor process, and the place of the worker within the prevailing occupational hierarchies." Because our entire educational construct is based on preparing generations of obedient "worker bees" rather than imaginative, problem-solving, creative thinkers, we can't be amazed that we are so far behind the rest of the world in so many ways, and that we can't seem to find our footing for making change in our educational system work. Gina — Have you by any chance read Stanley Aronowitz’s “False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness”?

Here’s his assertion about the real purpose of schooling in the US (seems a start on the answer about the dismantling of how we learn):

“What is learned in school — even in vocational school — is rarely related to specific industrial or commercial skills….Rather, students learn the skills needed to accommodate to the first requirement of industrial labor: respect for authority, the self-discipline necessary to internalize the values of the labor process, and the place of the worker within the prevailing occupational hierarchies.”

Because our entire educational construct is based on preparing generations of obedient “worker bees” rather than imaginative, problem-solving, creative thinkers, we can’t be amazed that we are so far behind the rest of the world in so many ways, and that we can’t seem to find our footing for making change in our educational system work.

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