Escaping Education : Living As Learning Within Grassroots Cultures

by Prakash, Madhu Suri; Esteva, Gustavo

• ISBN13: 9781433100611
• ISBN10: 1433100614
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

"Escaping Education challenges the modern certainly that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the undereducated, and the illiterate who constitute the social majorities or the Two-Thirds World. It celebrates the richness of their traditions, their pluriverse or commons, common sense, and communal teaching, keeping at bay the modern reign of homo oeconomicus and homo educandus, Standing the all-too-familiar tale of education on its head, it joins the regeneration of soil cultures, resisting cultural meltdown in the global classroom."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Gustavo Esteva has served as President of the Fifth World Congress on Rural Sociology, Interim Chairman of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Board, President of the Mexican Society for Planning, and Vice-President of the Inter-American Society for Planning. Madhu Suri Prakash is Professor of Education at the Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Education as a Human Right: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization	p. 1
The Different Faces and Facets of Education	p. 2
Reform, Revamping, Radicalization	p. 10
Multicultural Education: An Oxymoron	p. 15
Human Rights: The Contemporary Trojan Horse	p. 19
The Nexus of Contemporary Domination: Education-Human Rights-Development	p. 23
Apologies and Celebration	p. 27
Hosting the Otherness of the Other	p. 29
Grassroots Postmodernism: Refusenik Cultures	p. 35
The First Intercultural Dialogue?	p. 35
Educating the Indians	p. 38
The First Multicultural Educator of the Americas	p. 40
The Failure of Education	p. 42
Escaping Education: Learning to Listen, then Listening	p. 46
From Resistance to Liberation	p. 49
The Diversity of Liberation in the Lived Pluriverse	p. 51
Dropping Out	p. 54
Waking Up: Diplomas in the Survival Kit?	p. 62
Emerging Coalitions of Discontents	p. 67
The Return of the Incarnated Intellectual	p. 73
But What to Do with the Children?	p. 77
Dissolving Needs	p. 79
Grassroots Postmodernism	p. 81
After Education, What?	p. 87
Developing Education	p. 88
A Time of Renewal	p. 90
The Failure of Deschooling	p. 91
Beyond Deschooling: Education Stood on Its Head	p. 97
Taming the Horror: Overcoming the Reign of Educated Literacies	p. 100
Inverting Pandora's Box	p. 103
Living Without Schools or Education	p. 108
Margins and Centers: Escaping the Mythopoesis of Education	p. 114
Incarnated Intellectuals	p. 117
Contemporary Prophets	p. 121
Epilogue	p. 129
References	p. 135
Index	p. 145
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