Myths of Modern Education
dc.contributor.author | Mike, Countryman | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-23T15:57:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-23T15:57:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-02-23 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10464/6081 | |
dc.description.abstract | My focus is on assessment criteria of language proficiency in community college education. To demand clear writing is an application of scientism; it seeks to keep separate the fact/value distinction of positivism. This dangerously undermines the democratizing possibilities of education, since clear writing, taken to its extreme, is ultimately anonymous and dehumanizing. The active student-as-citizen is, therefore, subsumed under the neoliberal dictate of the passive student-as-consumer. The process of language acquisition is reduced to a fictitious act of knowledge transmission and regurgitation, and, therefore, those subversive aspects of language learning, such as creativity and critical inquiry, are undermined. An initial overview of the tenets of modernity will provide a conceptual framework for this examination. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brock University | en_US |
dc.subject | community college education | en_US |
dc.subject | critical theory | en_US |
dc.subject | english language learning | en_US |
dc.subject | scientism | en_US |
dc.subject | modernity | en_US |
dc.title | Myths of Modern Education | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en |
dc.degree.name | Master of Education | en_US |
dc.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies in Education | en_US |
dc.degree.discipline | Faculty of Education | en_US |
dc.embargo.terms | None | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-08-04T03:32:45Z |