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Post by drjohnson on Feb 25, 2012 14:04:06 GMT -5
This is a guest post by William. William is a psychodynamic psychotherapist currently working in an educational setting in Chicago, and a regular commenter at Feministe. The first post in his guest-posting series on madness is here, and the second is here. www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2012/02/24/bloodied-yet-unbowed/ |
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Post by healthy11 on Feb 25, 2012 14:48:45 GMT -5
When I first started reading, I wasn't sure what it was going to be about, but the end of his article gives plenty of "food for thought." One such paragraph follows:
"The problem of education is similar to the problem of madness because the ways in which we think about education mirror the ways in which we think about madness: we conceptualize these things as deviations from an ideal norm, as something patients or students lack, and we identify these deviations based first on what is uncomfortable for us and then on what we can identify as different. Education today leaves little room for intellectual or neurological diversity. The end result of how we educate children is that kids learn how to conform to the expectations of the educational environment rather than how to think critically or meaningfully engage with data."
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