What is the appropriate Function of Education in Society

For the last year and a half or so, I have been researching the sociological dimensions of Web 2.0, from which I could apply some of the conclusions I have formed from my observations of the Plebeian social democratic knowledge-production communities to the administration of education. I think that this would be a refreshing change since educational theory – undoubtedly to its detriment – has primarily borrowed from the field of psychology.

This leads to approaches that are so latent with implicit moralistic baggage that we tend to lose sight of the possibility that education should be a vehicle for individuals to actively shape and form their own modality of existentiality, rather than simply being indoctrinated into forms of practice that serve the vested interests of economic elites who need access to a docile, a skilled, and a conforming mass of technocratic minions. I would propose a curriculum based upon heuristics, which would allow for the self-discovery and innovation of knowledge; rather than indoctrination into established and contricting corridors of thought.

I am primarily concerned with the revitalization of a democratic culture in America, so in opposition to the standards based assessments of educational success – which, of course, simply extend the reach of a particular cultural hegemony that controls the institutions through which objectivity and truth are produced -- a conceptualization of the appropriate teleology for education, giving form to our educational praxis that is rooted in the promotion of an egalitarian, deliberative, social democracy.

After reading what I just wrote, I do not expect a reply, but I will send this off anyway, R Cole

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