power, profit, and pedagogy
an examination of how u.s. education is shaped and distorted by politics, profit, culture wars, propaganda, inequitable funding, and policy legacies.
exposing the forces squeezing teachers, kids, and communities while spotlighting justice-centered practices that fight back.
“What will happen if teachers become sufficiently courageous and emancipated to insist that education means the creation of a discriminating mind, a mind that prefers not to dupe itself or to be the dupe of others?
... It will then have come about that education and politics are one and the same thing.”
~John Dewey
Following the Industrial Revolution, a mass education system was introduced to meet the needs of industrial production. Unfortunately, though, the alienating nature of this widespread education came at the expense of intellectual unity, synthesis and, therefore, understanding. The curriculum was designed to produce factory labourers who could read
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Traditional schooling irons out our creative impulses in order to prepare us for the factory and the cubicle. Our educational system was made this way with the best of intentions, but that way of operating is wildly obsolete.
