By Juha Suoranta
"Wikiworld" explores a revolution on this planet of schooling. the way in which we study is altering: institutionalised studying is growing new kinds of severe studying and open collaboration. This ebook bargains a old and political framework to contemplate the way forward for studying and academic media.The authors offer an outline of using new applied sciences and studying practices, and investigate how the altering nature of schooling may end up in a extra socially simply destiny. even as, they position their research of schooling inside a much broader social and financial framework of latest capitalism.
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In short, that the ideas and categories that have arisen during the development of modern science and industrialism are superior to those of all former cultures and indispensable for the progress of the human race. Illich’s new conception of human beings can be translated into a less metaphysical language of learning. 2, two conceptions of learning are opposed. The table also shows some of the thinkers who have elaborated these conceptions. Illich’s conception is in the right-hand column, with other critical humanists.
27). On the other hand, learning as being refers to internally motivated learning, learning 26 WIKIWORLD without any other purpose than ethically meaningful self-transformation, and learning as an end in itself. It seems as if Illich’s utopia drew society as an island of free spirits sharing opinions and ideas in an Eden-like purity, without social powers, social divisions or other modern pollutants. This is, of course, a caricature of Illich’s utopian or nomadic postmodernism. 2 Two Conceptions of Learning Learning as … Consumer good Having Political bargaining and rhetoric Manifestation of instrumental rationality An end in itself (Kant) Being (Fromm), sharing and caring Self-transformation (Foucault) An act of love and mercy (both eros and agape) (Thomas Aquinas) Domination The practice of freedom (Freire) Surveillance and social status quo Social criticism (Apple) Engineering and economic utility Askesis, experiment, pleasure (hooks) And taking place in … Manipulative institutions ‘Convivial’ institutions (Illich) Zygmunt Bauman (1995) claims that, unlike in modernity, in late modernity people are left alone with their moral dilemmas.
First, there is the basic ethicopolitical problem that knowledge and information that have been created by the many during centuries if not millennia are now, in the twenty-first century, closed and commodified, given to the few. Second, there is the practical problem that an agreement like the TRIPS treaty structurally tends to favour established mega-companies, not the ‘copyright-holders’ of, say, indigenous knowledge (see Shiva 2001). As for the first, fundamental problem, the UN Economic and Social Council Sub-Comission on Human Rights suggested in August 2000 that implementing the TRIPS agreement may violate basic human rights, including ‘the right of everyone to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications … there are apparent conflicts between the intellectual property rights regime embodied in the TRIPS agreement, on the one hand, and international human rights law, on the other’ (quoted in Drahos and Braithwaite 2002, p.