In my previous post, I argued that ‘curriculum’ is a floating signifier whose meaning has been temporarily fixed through the ‘knowledge turn’ in English education and that LLMs are circumventing the traditional mechanisms through which meaning is selected, contested, and stabilised: the conference paper, the inspection framework, the trust CPD programme, the slow capture of professional common sense.
Did you deliberately not entitle it 'What is to be done?'. It is hard to argue with any of this but I imagine schools will continue to fight and lose the war of manoeuvre for the foreseeable future. I just asked my AI of choice to summarise what school's should be doing. I think it would make a good alternative title: 'Not whether, but how much—and under whose authority.'
I’ve been called many things, I’m not sure a Leninist is one that I am aiming for. :) I like the alternative title too. I suppose the point is to open the space for understanding the particular situation we are in and this is where I think the recent ‘knowledge turn’ is instructive as it is recent, it was open with the plans and actions to become the current hegemonic way of thinking and it is being challenged by something it has not reckoned with before.
Did you deliberately not entitle it 'What is to be done?'. It is hard to argue with any of this but I imagine schools will continue to fight and lose the war of manoeuvre for the foreseeable future. I just asked my AI of choice to summarise what school's should be doing. I think it would make a good alternative title: 'Not whether, but how much—and under whose authority.'
I’ve been called many things, I’m not sure a Leninist is one that I am aiming for. :) I like the alternative title too. I suppose the point is to open the space for understanding the particular situation we are in and this is where I think the recent ‘knowledge turn’ is instructive as it is recent, it was open with the plans and actions to become the current hegemonic way of thinking and it is being challenged by something it has not reckoned with before.