User:Themsen/RW4

Min. 1000 wrd

20141110 -dividuals/individuals

• ---divided/individed
  • "man is no longer man enclosed, but man in debt"
  • "the disciplinary man was a discontiuous producer of energy, but the man of control is undulatory, in orbit, in a continuous network" (Deleuze)

• enclosed space/extension of enclosures
  • ---extension of enclosure vs. dividuals?

• sovereign society - disciplinary society - society of control
  • --- society of control mixing attriubutes from sovereign society and disciplinary society?
  • barely visible singular boss - invisible singular/multiple boss - barely invisible multiple/imaginary boss (?)

• work/study
  • man of control in continuous network - school/institutions, atomicism no longer as strong = finland as progressive country for education, reason?
  • all equal according to the hierarchy of super-panopticon (computer), [collective individuation]

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"Finnish education often seems paradoxical to outside observers because it appears to break a lot of the rules we take for granted. Finnish children don’t begin school until age 7. They have more recess, shorter school hours than many U.S. children do (nearly 300 fewer hours per year in elementary school), and the lightest homework load of any industrialized nation. There are no gifted programs, almost no private schools, and no high-stakes national standardized tests.

Yet over the past decade Finland has consistently performed among the top nations on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15-year olds in 65 nations and territories around the world." [trust-based, horizontal, collective individuation]

('Finnish Education Chief: 'We Created a School System Based on Equality', The Atlantic, Christine Gross-LOH, Mar 17 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/finnish-education-chief-we-created-a-school-system-based-on-equality/284427/)

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“We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,” said Pasi Sahlberg, a former math and physics teacher who is now in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture. “We are not much interested in PISA. It’s not what we are about.” "The national goal for the past five years has been to mainstream all children." [dividualistic?]

"A class of first graders scampered among nearby pine and birch trees, each holding a stack of the teacher’s homemade laminated “outdoor math” cards. “Find a stick as big as your foot,” one read. “Gather 50 rocks and acorns and lay them out in groups of ten,” read another. Working in teams, the 7- and 8-year-olds raced to see how quickly they could carry out their tasks. Aleksi Gustafsson, whose master’s degree is from Helsinki University, developed the exercise after attending one of the many workshops available free to teachers. “I did research on how useful this is for kids,” he said. “It’s fun for the children to work outside. They really learn with it.”" [nudging?]

('Why Are Finland's Schools Successful', Smithsonian Magazine, LynNell Hancock, September 2011, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/?no-ist=&page=1 )

• Keywords from texts:
  • equal school system
  • human capital
  • vocational education
  • mainstream learning
  • cooperative teaching
  • guidelines & not prescriptions

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• Notes on keywords:
  • mainstream learning, equal school system; removal of hierarchy, horizontal learning
  • human capital; one definition of masses in control society
  • vocational education; undulatory, in orbit, man of control
  • cooperative teaching; corporation(?), results through merging of tactics, merging of teaching (?)
  • guidelines & not prescriptions; nudging
  • teachers, principals deciding and not government (teachers choose when their students attend strict exams); decentralization

--- Definitions

• Corporation: a commercial entity legally seen as an individual led by an organization of associates. Any group of persons united or regarded as united in one body.

• Cooperation: an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.

The cooperative teaching currently being developed by finnish pedagogues might not be as far from the foundations of corporate action. One body could be easily taken out of its material or formally agreed upon context and mean, to take the saying literally, 'working as one'. As was seen in 'The Waldo Moment' the body of a corporation is multiple, the unity of many; this also applies to cooperative teaching. The virtual image of the corporation is a clear-cut image, and so does the virtual image of the cooperate teacher also has to be in order for education to reach its optimum. The cooperative teaching is one body, where the teachers work towards a unified goal using both of each one's strength. Cooperative teaching might be the version of the control society where it spreads from person to person, and corporations may be the manifestation for crowd-controlling masses. Each use homework, or working at a distance, as their ways of observing and affecting subjects even outside their enclosures; teaching merely has a more consistent history of home-work.