Change Perception, Change Behavior, Change Rules, Change Systems–the Real...
Today’s post reenforces my consistent point that what is going on in education ‘reforms’ at all levels is not about the how and what of getting as many students as possible as knowledgeable and able as...
View ArticleCenter of the Storm: Requiring Data Collection on Continuous Improvement to a...
I started Chapter 3 of my book with a quote that has been haunting me ever since we first confronted the DiaMat theory dead on two posts ago. Professor Jeremy Kilpatrick was speaking at a 1987...
View ArticleCollecting Student Data to Practice PsychoPolitics on a Massive but Invisible...
Consent from legislatures, state boards of education, local school boards, misunderstood charters, or NCLB waivers should not count in countries founded on the principle that governments must respect a...
View ArticleQuality Education Shapes What Will Be Valued and Provides Unifying Concepts...
Now that we know that there is a deliberate global coordination to redesign the very nature of school curricula, I thought it would be helpful to understand what these various entities and institutions...
View ArticleTranscending the Individual Mind as the Analytical Unit of Learning While...
In 2003, Peter Senge, also tied to MIT’s Sloan School of Management just like Alex Pentland from the last post, wrote an article “Creating Desired Futures in a Global Economy” based on remarks he...
View ArticleImposing Cybernetics Control Theory on Students While Pretending the Impetus...
The term cybernetics to me was always just a vague concept that had something to do with computers. I was following up on the Soviet psychologist Piotr Galperin and his behavior-orienting...
View ArticleAdding Comrade Education and Psychological Predation to Our Descriptions of...
Since honestly laying out intentions in public is so rare in education reforms these days, I thought I would use a recent book by the founder of the Reos Institute, Zaid Hassan. Reos aspires to...
View ArticleExplaining the Sudden Ubiquity of Psycho-Development Theory: Changing...
Macroshift and Megachange. Holos Consciousness. Ambitious changes to society, political structures, or targeting human behavior itself need theories and models. Not to reflect reality as it currently...
View ArticleSurreptitious Vision: Ed Reforms as Designing an Internal Keel to Control...
No I am not a sailor although I did once have a very fun weekend on a sailboat in the Chesapeake as a hapless, but supportive, passenger. I am afraid this metaphor of a keel that allows steering...
View ArticleEnshrining Mindfulness and Engaged Social Consciousness to Require Personal...
Does that title seem to be an unexpected way to end this Trilogy of Adaptation=Personal Transformation to get to Planetary Transformation? Probably not if you think about it. Sounds like an excellent...
View ArticleBogus Excuses to Always Hype What Extinguishes or Controls the Analytical,...
In the ancient world, if all roads did in fact lead to Rome, it would not be much of a stretch to decide that Rome was the place where those who took the time and expense to travel likely needed to go...
View ArticleAbolishing the First Amendment’s Protections While Hyping Intellectual...
If we wanted to turn the current protections of the First Amendment on its head, we might argue that its new function is to “ensure the democratic legitimation of the state” and “create a new state of...
View ArticleShaped and Sculpted Young People Ready to be Governable Participants in a New...
Remember that catchy Peter Paul and Mary song “Leaving on a Jet Plane”? Well, I am practically humming it in my head this afternoon. After reading revelations in the last few months that have me...
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