Western Education and its Impacts

I was invited by Hidayat TV to talk about Critical Thinking’s analysis of how education has been colonised along with all the other levers of power: Hidayat TV – Western Education and its Impacts (video 47 minutes 8 seconds) During the conversation, I referred to several references which are also included in Critical Thinking’s paper, … Read more

Gulag Academia

A study of the effect of hierarchy on academic freedom and our consequent perceptions of reality has been uploaded to archive.org and is available as a PDF here.

Abstract

Purpose: Exposing the deficiencies of institutional hierarchies in academia which limit the potential for human creativity and understanding.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the product of non-hierarchical, self-organised learning following the methodology of CoCreative Learning (see Section 9).

Findings: Academia’s institutional hierarchy perpetuates ignorance of the current political economy which functions as a mechanism to farm humans and harvest the wealth they create.

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