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Detailing devils in Australian English curriculum : Comments

By David Long, published 13/1/2014

Thus, while education science might claim to know the most efficient teaching methods, it can offer no judgement about what constitutes the best curriculum, whether in English or otherwise.

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Don't look now David their hiding under your bed.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Monday, 13 January 2014 10:08:18 AM
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David Long's post is so full of exaggeration, misinterpretation, quotes out of context and non sequiturs it would take a day to respond to it. Suffice to say that his post is closer to fiction than any other genre.
Posted by Godo, Monday, 13 January 2014 10:23:21 AM
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David's analysis is pretty close to the mark:

<<Critical literacy purports to teach students how to deconstruct texts critically...It is common for this technique to be used to analyse Shakespeare from a [one-eyed] feminist perspective [or worse] by deconstructing Romeo and Juliet.>>

Yes indeed.
Posted by SPQR, Monday, 13 January 2014 10:37:20 AM
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Old style "education" was never ever intended to teach young people HOW to think or to deeply consider anything at all. Its purpose was to clone young people into the collective unconscious hive-mind.

On the contrary it was always purposed to teach young people what to think, to create the normal well-adjusted one-dimensional man. Preferrable Christian of course, the kind that would get suckered by a Billy Graham "crusade". Its purpose was to squash the intrinsic curiosity and potential creativity of most of its victims.

It taught such things that it was completely "natural" that the white man was born to rule (rule Britannia), and that all the coloured races and their multi-various cultures were (obviously) inferior, with the darkies being classified as sub-human, especially the Australian "aborigines".

The same is true of all recent systematized methods of social indoctrination whether of the left or right. Julia Gillard's scheme, the USA No Child Left Behind, and the new Common Core curriculum being introduced by the Obama administration.

Furthermore any discussion about education that does not take the all-pervasive role of TV (and now computer screens and I-phones) as the most powerful culturally formative influence on young peoples developing brains and nervous systems, and thus by extension their minds hasnt even begun to understand the nature of the info-entertainment "culture" that now patterns and controls the entire world

Meanwhile the author featured on this reference has some very damming things to say about how our "culture" systematically destroys the innate intelligence of all of its young people.
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/JCP98.html
Posted by Daffy Duck, Monday, 13 January 2014 11:24:39 AM
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The idea of deconstructing works of literature to see how they work is nearly as silly as chopping up Michelangelo's 'David' into small pieces and analyzing each bit in an effort to explain how the sculptor achieved his masterpiece. Of course, chopping up the statue destroys it. The same with literature.

I have had fiction (literary and commercial) published and, when I was creating it, I did not make it as one would a cake with a list of ingredients carefully mixed. It just formed itself in my mind. After a lot of re-writing, it was done!

"A group of Australian education scientists have praised critical literacy theory" David Long reports.

The idea of an 'education scientist' is bizarre enough but 'critical literacy theory' is more so. Creating literature is not a science. It is an artistic endeavor!

P.S. And the best way to achieve educational outcomes is to employ gifted teachers who can't be churned out like sausages despite what Academics claim!
Posted by David G, Monday, 13 January 2014 11:42:11 AM
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All forms of literature (and art) are forms of propaganda - with no exceptions. Including of course the Bible which was fabricated by those who won the culture wars of their time and place. Fabricated to consolidate their worldly power.
The winners always get to define what is acceptable and to eradicate any and everything that is off-scene.
However that can not be done anymore because the entire canon of humankind's philosophical and literary canon is now freely available on the internet. Something which the various back-to-the-past ideologues cannot seem to appreciate.
That having been said the very best or those that are rightly considered classics were critical portrayals of the political and social power relationships of their time and place both at the individual and collective levels.
In other words they were attempts to deconstruct the usually unexamined unconscious presumptions that governed or patterned the the culture in the time and place in which the author was writing.

This reference introduces a unique Trilogy, the author of which thoroughly examined the entire philosophical, literary and artistic canon of humankind especially by urgent cultural necessity, that of the Western world - because we Westerners now rule the world.

http://www.adidaupclose.org/Literature_Theater/skalsky.html

Fifteen years ago the author of the above trilogy suggested that one of the best ways to understand what American "culture" was really all about was to watch the film Beavis and Butthead Do America.
Posted by Daffy Duck, Monday, 13 January 2014 1:12:42 PM
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