I wonder whether we are experiencing an increased awareness
of an environment undergoing tectonic shifts. In order to gain
some measure of local control we seek to "network" for
social/economic advantages; we use the Web to find and establish
diverse links; on the job we increasingly network across organizational
boundaries. Kevin Kelly's "Out of Control" and the present widespread
acceptance of privatization with reduced governmental involvement may
be symptomatic of a changing consciousness.
Even the "power relation" between teacher and student may be undergoing
a metamorphosis. Teachers may not be certain whether they should teach,
serve as information resources on demand, counsel, guide, etc., or all of these
things. And in many instances, where technology is involved, the students may
teach the teachers. School violence may, too, be reflective of this underlying
sense of loss of control.
"Business has had a heroic view of itself - it's an adventure that could star
Bruce, Sly or Ahnuld. In fact, this is because of business's infatuation with
management, which in turn is a result from our culture's delusion that we can
manage and control everything from our children to the environment. In order
to support our comfortable belief that all is under control, we agree to play by
very narrowly rules that govern all of our business behavior, including what t
ype of shoes we wear, how much religion we can discuss, and what types of
jokes we can tell. But the Web is thoroughly infiltrating business and the Web
is a profoundly unmanaged environment. As business takes on the characteristics
of the Web, business itself is becoming decentralized, "de-globalized," full of
attitude, and crumbled into byte-sized clumps. How are businesses coping?
And, more important, how will they succeed?"
Source: http://www.hyperorg.com/evident/speaker.html
Bob
"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:
> It seems to me that one of the fundamental
> problems of our educational system is that we
> do not teach young persons about the basic structures
> of interpersonal communication, starting with
> the power relation between teacher and student *hic et nunc*
> (i.e., in the very living moment of instruction).
>
> Lawrence Kohlberg called this: "The hidden curriculum",
> and it teachers lessons far more important than whether
> God created Adam and Eve, or we all evolved from
> adventitious chemical reactions via slime mold and
> monkeys. For, having accepted the communicative
> structure of teacher-student as too obvious to
> be noticed, the young persons graduate to taking
> the communicative relation between boss and employee
> as too obvious to be noticed.
>
> --
http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcdaniel/
