Our LMS from the last post will be useful for that, won’t it? Let’s get to several quotes before I get to the document called “Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America” that so many of the education visions of transformation actually tie to. The first comes from https://www.facinghistory.org/chunk/student-activities-assessing-strength-democracy recently tied to the subject of one of this summer’s extravaganza funerals, where attendees need not worry about crowd limitations or quarantine orders between states, is quoted in a way that is guaranteed to shift the students’ mental models of what ‘democracy’ means. Here is the offered quote from a posthumously published editorial in the New York Times by “civil rights leader John Lewis”. The Times is one of the listed partners in the “Thriving Together” agenda.
Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.
Students are then asked to reflect as follows:
What do you think John Lewis meant when he said democracy is an act not a state?
How do you think John Lewis’s definition of democracy is similar to or different than the one you created on your concept map?
According to John Lewis, each generation is responsible for taking action to support democracy. What actions do you think people in your own generation are taking to create “a nation and world society at peace with itself?”
And just like that a revolutionary theory, that John Lewis himself would have tied to Bayard Rustin [see tags from where we have had related past posts] gets operationalized in classrooms and LMS activities to internalize the new desired mental models. Let’s go with the next quote from the cover of “Thriving Together” from Amanda Gorman, listed there as the US Youth Poet Laureate 2020 (emphasis in original):
The Miracle of Morning
From a wave of woes our world will emerge stronger.
We’ll observe how the burdens braved by humankind
Are also the moments that make us humans kind;
Let every dawn find us courageous, brought closer;
Heeding the light before the fight is over.
When this ends, we’ll smile sweetly, finally seeing
In testing times, we became the best of beings.
One of the themes of all the reenvisoning of education in light of covid and supposed ‘systemic racism’ is this call for education to support Becoming straight out of Humanist Psychology’s launch in the early 60s. It’s back by name [see links to Maslow and Rogers from past] and the education vision ties to this broader social, economic, and political transformation that is far worse than what I first recognized in Credentialed to Destroy. No wonder Tranzi OBE never goes away by function. It just gets new names or incorporated in a school’s charter or mission statement. “Thriving Together” also has a new vision of what Democracy means that is also getting quietly incorporated into new civics activities.
Thriving and well-being for all in the long-term of 10 years and beyond. Transformation to an equitable society where everyone thrives is the goal and is the moral imperative to aspire to. ..Our systems writ large do not work for low-income Americans. ..The democratization of power so that there is a shift to community and local governance models where government resources are provided to local communities who are responsible for making decisions about how to improve their conditions is a key element in successfully financing well-being…This shift will reinvigorate our democracy and help financing of well-being goals. It will create a different social contract between citizens and government that engages citizens in improving their communities [gives a new meaning to learning standards to be ‘citizenship ready’], versus the primacy of individualized pursuits of wealth and prosperity. Social contracts are rooted in reciprocity and mutually beneficial relationships that over time sew bonds and relationships of trust that transcend self-interest and are critical for achieving well-being and for surviving over the long term as a unified prosperous nation and human experiment in freedom and justice.
That last puts a new spin on what is meant by the phrase We the People as a curriculum in the 21st century doesn’t it? We will come back to that in future posts but if you are an eager beaver, track down Professor Danielle Allen’s Education and Equality. Regardless, all these visions where education is now seen as the tool to transform the meta-systems of Capitalism, Racism, and the nature of Democracy state outright, in a reelaboration of our title that (my bolding):
We must pursue comprehensive, long term attitude and mindset shift initiatives to reframe Americans’ mental models toward shared fate and equal opportunity. As a nation, if we understand our shared fate, we will be much more motivated to create an equitable society, not only for the moral imperative, but because it is also in the self-interest of the population as a whole. This is the central argument of our transformational work.
To get at the meta-systems requires “shifts in mindset, beliefs, and values”, which is exactly what education generally, but especially the LMS, is designed to do. It allows for the desired experiences to foster epigenetic change at a neurobiological level to be reliably delivered and then outcomes, improvement, and overall student transformation can be measured. In fact, although we have only covered LMS’s as they pertain to desired changes to student and how to best create them, “Thriving Together” see LMS as a much broader tool for overall systems change.
We recommend choosing, measuring, and tracking process and outcome measures over time that are inclusive of all collaborating sectors to create a ‘learning management system’ that uses harmonized data [subject to a standard like the Common Core and CEDS and ISCED via ISO] shared transparently [interoperability and Project Unicorn] to work together to achieve a common goal of creating an equitable, thriving community. This learning management system can inform the journey towards a thriving community…
Attitudes must shift after all if you are teaching students that “Democracies function effectively with all citizens contributing to the whole and a service mentality.” Put that kind of a statement of prescribed collectivism in a textbook and parents will notice and object. Design learning activities, either in person or online, around creating that very mindset and it is hard to notice until the mindset is in place and your student is spouting theories of how the world should work at the family dinner table, leaving parents rather mystified as to what happened, where it is going, and how.
Well, not if they read ISC or have my book, and we are going to cover this more in the future now that I hopefully will have more of a chance to describe all these confessions that have popped out this summer from all over the globe. I have them documented and know how this all fits. Let’s close though with a quote from the Harvard Redesign Lab at their Graduate Ed School from the “Thriving Together:” section titled “Lifelong Learning: Cradle to Career” as it laid out the ways that the school closings “can be harnessed to shift paradigms”.
We must shatter the myth that our current K-12 education system is the great equalizer, single-handedly creating an equal opportunity society in spite of unprecedented inequality in income and wealth. It’s a noble ideal, but the data over more than a century clearly prove that schools alone, even when substantially reformed, are too weak an intervention to deliver on the promise of giving all children a fair chance to succeed. It’s a myth. Now, we must move from an old-fashioned, schoolhouse-bound model of child development and education to a system of robust, flexible learning opportunities coupled with basic supports available from birth through adulthood.
See you next time, since disclosure is the only way to have any chance of avoiding this vision of collectivism imposed almost invisibly through the mind and personality of students. Luckily for us, it’s not actually invisible and the policy creators have been most communicative, even if they only intended to be speaking to fellow travellers.
Let’s just say I hitchhiked a ride and peered into lots of reports pertinent to the US, but never mentioned to or linked here.
For your collection:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/deloitte/2020/09/15/the-perseverance-of-resilient-leadership-sustaining-impact-on-the-road-to-thrive/#24d8fe22390c
Now owned by a Hong Kong based investor group. https://nypost.com/2014/07/18/forbes-magazine-sold-to-asian-investor-group/
That Tom VanderArk post from yesterday that I will relink here on Transformative Learning https://www.gettingsmart.com/2020/09/15-invention-opportunities-in-learning/ like many of his columns was originally published in Forbes.
The CCP-owned Bytedance was also the purchaser of the transformative Minerva LMS platform that we saw expanded to K-12 via Laurel Springs School. None of this is coincidental. We are just now able to read the actual template much better.
https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/down-the-1619-projects-memory-hole/
The 1619 Project False Narrative sure makes much more sense once you know the New York Times is a partner in the “Thriving Together” initiative seeking new mental models to enable the desired transformations, especially with ‘racism’ being one of its 3 purported ‘metasystems’.
All of this is very grim.
One thing I understood in speaking with my intern, — well, there were actually two things I understood — was that nations and states within my own nation could only justify the absurd quest for “not one more Covid-19 death”, if there was a racial agenda, an equity agenda baked into the narrative. So, this means that in certain willfully-ill-informed minds, a Covid-19 ‘associated’ death of a ‘person of color’ would be perceived as a racially-motivated death, akin to that of global icon, George Floyd. My intern, whose family of origin is based in the Philippines, recited for me the same bogus horror stories I had heard from Filipinos here in Japan. When I checked the CDC stats, the mortality rate for that island nation was on par with that of Japan, meaning close to non-existent.
My intern was also using “we” (meaning citizens of the nation of N.Z.) in a royal and imperious way, as though she had been empowered to speak for ALL citizens of N.Z…and, I had heard this before. She displayed ZERO concern for her comrades who had lost their livelihood, or even her own future as the graduate in a field that likely has no real future application…RACIAL equity was really the only concern. I ended the conversation feeling that I was talking to a nouveau member of the Hitler Youth.
When I pointed out the absurdity of my own field…how organizations in Japan were expending resources, now, not on business continuity planning, but on providing their confused populations with Trans ‘sensitivity’ training…this did not register, because if even ONE oppressed and ‘in the closet’ Trans person could be spared ONE moment of social discomfort, MONEY well-spent.
Now, an observation I have made in this forum, and with regard to the many student interns I have endured, I will make, again. I don’t see these people — groomed as activists — as being ’employable’. You now have an entire generation of them in the U.S. Being female, being a POC, or a BAME, or person experiencing multiple indices of intersectional oppression, whatever, is not a job skill.
Probably, there exists whole new sub-disciplines in the field of ‘talent’ management, and related to filtering them out, w/o gettng caught — because as some of us know, the workplace is a place where people work, as opposed to a venue for struggle sessions.
I am really liking the advice Douglas Murray is dispensing to employees consigned to participation in ABUSIVE thought-reform anti-whatever training — express your displeasure and leave.
All for today…
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2020/09/28/we_must_use_this_moment_to_transform_public_education_110475.html from today.
We have a world turned upside down with football players wearing ‘Equality’ on their jerseys despite the fact they are among the top football players of their generation and thus not a peer of so many others at all. No one sees that the memes they are being trained to employ do not fit the facts. They are simply primer to create the internalized mental models to accept the need for transformation and perhaps become an activist for it as you are encountering.
I have been reassessing many of my social/business encountered over the last five or so years. I had initially contacted you, Robin, related to the behavior of individuals who had matriculated from certain elite U.S. universities, and seemed to be engaged in a form of identity politics I did not understand at the time. It is hard for me to articulate this even now, but, it seems to entail the idea that you can choose to identify as an ‘American’, though you know nothing about the culture, or an oppressed female, though you are living in million> yen/mo. apartment with a maid, and a ‘helper’. The key term, which I recently caught onto is ‘self’-identified, which evokes in my mind, ‘selfie’-identified.
Just received photos from my intern in which she is cavorting in her multi-cultural paradise. I have been in thinking with regard to this of what was/is called “California’s Lost Generation”…should add an (s) to that, what happens when learning institutions produce armies of people whose skills fit no actual need in the workplace — multi-cultural as hell, though!
This https://www.aier.org/article/stakeholder-fascism-means-more-loss-of-liberty/ also fits with your experience and with the aims of “Thriving Together”.
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_IBC_Measuring_Stakeholder_Capitalism_Report_2020.pdf is the actual link to the embedded Davos crowd paper from the quote.
Yes, that is called “triple bottom-line”…
Notice this passage from Appendix which is directly on point to your previous observation.
Plus, the auditors for virtually any publicly held company are among the listed creators of this report–Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC are listed by name on the cover and all their involved personnel laid out following the conclusion. These metrics get incorporated into what it means to be publicly-held. Also notice all the references to ‘standards’ with our own Common Core as part of the vision along with any frameworks for Personalized, Competency-based Learning.
Self-identification isn’t always enough, e.g. Rachel Dolezal (although she ended up having other problems with welfare fraud), Jessica Krug, CV Vitolo-Haddad.
They’re telling you how to identify, how much to identify (you’re just an “ally” so you must do this but you cannot do that), and it’s all with their permission. Fuhgiddaboudit!
I opt out, which is easier for me to do than for black people who want to opt out of the craziness. They *really* come under pressure!
I think you will find this paper interesting, especially with the attempt to link and regulate the physical, social, AND digital. https://infrastructure.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Infrastructure-Building-the-World-We-Deserve.pdf
Paying attention at the end the graphic shows what my webinars are all saying with all ‘content’ delivered digitally and thus manipulable and throwing off copious data. Notice on the Thanks page the involvement of the Kahn Academy (remember he has an AI degree from MIT) as well as Summit Schools, which was essentially the pilot for the Chan Zuckerberg education vision using the digital realm and LMS’s.
I am getting better at stairs now so hopefully my days of being stuck in the breakfast room with a laptop are almost over. I watched an ASCD video yesterday on SEL and one of the 5 categories to be cultivated was “Public Spirit”. Goes well with that shared reality worldview I suppose.
I love that! “Nope sorry, i have opted out.”
Lol i am gonna use that!
Show them my starbucks card, say see i have opted out!
You would think I could hardly say ” I’m depressed about all of this.” at this very late stage in the psyop. … and yet having been reading here since 2012 I am …just sad.
All the objective, facts in the world don’t seem to penetrate the illusory, vaguely maniacal, unicorns and rainbows, collectivist lies that are coming at the masses from absolutely every angle imaginable.
Talk about an assault upon reality.
As I read the EST/Becoming hustle I thought immediately of one of its most recent pop culture incarnations, designed to embed the language in the minds of minions, in the form of Michelle Obama’s book ” Becoming”.
Becoming is the new Whole Child.
Whole Child was the ( misunderstood/misrepresented ) schtick in the 70’s in my Quaker School. It made its way into other private schools and then into general k-12 curriculum by the 90’s when my husband was a young 5th grade teacher.
Today it’s Becoming. You and your child can be formless, mindless, empty vessels to be filled with whatever competencies are needed in a given moment. BECOME whatever you the unit of labor is needed to be.
Has our dear friend Martha Nussbaum written anything recently about Capabilities and Becoming?
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/creating-capabilities-the-human-development-approach-2/ From 2011. Not new, but precisely on to your point.
I managed to aggravate a decades old ankle injury and am now in a boot with orders to stay off the stairs.
In the meantime, these old pots are precisely relevant. http://invisibleserfscollar.com/naming-educators-as-the-levers-shifting-the-human-personality-to-marxs-moral-revolution/ . Robert Tucker was the first to clue me into the true MH template.
This second one is on the 1962 Maslow/ Rogers book with the NEA about Becoming launched at the same time as the MH template. http://invisibleserfscollar.com/psychological-approach-to-a-humane-politics-restructuring-the-west-quietly-and-effectively-via-ed/
And we wonder why i developed the Uncle Karl euphemism to overlay some humor to a grim aspiration.
I am pretty sure that both Rogers and Maslow expressed deep concerns about the monster they had created just prior to their respective deaths. Apparently, these concerns can be found in the last edition of “Humanistic Education” Rogers was able to edit. His zealots expunged his comments in future editions. Maslow remarked in one article (which I will try to locate) and with regard to his self-actualized students at Brandeis, “I might as well be selling chewing gum.” By this, I think he meant that his decades of accrued knowledge and experience were of no interest to his students. Kinda portents what has become of the social sciences, and the humanities for that matter.
I guess we can take comfort in the fact that these two guys killed their own discipline.
Good compendium of the lingo that keeps getting recycled.
http://www.sageofasheville.com/pub_downloads/CARL_ROGERS_AND_HUMANISTIC_EDUCATION.pdf
My sense with Rogers is that he was allowed to play fast and loose with a number of constructs w/o the onus of demonstrating positive results. So, he intuits that ‘group therapy’ is useful to traumatized vets in a V.A. hospital, which means it must be equally beneficial to ‘healthy’ individuals in various settings, and then, hey, lets turn our schools into venues of self-exploration/actualization. He was an ex-seminarian…and, seems to not hesitate to impose quasi-religious belief systems on others.
They called it
@therapy for normals”.
At one point Rogers/Maslow got so frustrated with “therapy for normals”…they called it, “the lunatics are running the asylum”. Therapy for normals was practiced at my SJW graduate institution, i.e. they let the lunatics run the admissions office. Kinda like the U.S. right now.
Speaking of Maslow we have this
from https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-maslow-bloom-all-day-long and then we have another listed partner in “Thriving Together” having the author of the 1619 Project as the keynoter for the conclusion of StriveTogether’s 2020 Cradle to Career Network Convening https://www.strivetogether.org/insights/truth-and-power-nikole-hannah-jones-closes-convening/
Speaking of which, one of the upcoming webinars on changing the nature of higher ed in the US seeks to now have it focus on 3 things: achieving upward mobility for all graduates, racial equality, and creating new conceptions of citizenship. We also have Getting Smart, with its Gates-affiliated and school district transformationalist consultant also tied to GEFF 2030, coming out explicitly for Harris-Biden ticket as Kamala refers to it when she goes off script. Same newsletter also announced a Walton Foundation supported initiative to make sure all of us serfs are being pushed to our obligation to perceive through a common, shared reality that need not be factual at all.
I would say I feel like Alice beyond the looking glass, but let’s face it, no one has been chronicling all this at the depth I have for as long as I have. It’s hard to believe though that suddenly we are here where every authoritarian government has always wanted to be able to control.
Take a look at this from yesterday. https://www.edutopia.org/article/developing-social-justice-unit-english-language-arts
YAAAAS! People are so braindead. But i was too until i wasputting kids in schools. As a researcher i had to know everything! Discovered crazy stuff like frankfurt school moses hess and rogers. Blew my mind. How can you turn away from it you see it everywhere. It cannot be unseen. And now it for realzy is in our face.
Ug.
Make sure you take a look at this https://spark.adobe.com/page/EWohCj9EfkJEz/ new initiative on “Centering Healing and Humanity” from Living Cities. Originally funded by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, it is now connected with virtually every major foundation and investment or commercial bank of any size via their philanthropy. I worked on that last week while I was laid up. Genuinely shocking admissions on what is planned for us.
Remember when I covered the Asia Society in CtD? https://asiasociety.org/education/education-equity
Well, golly Robin, I wrote a paper a few years back in which I used as an analytical framework a meta-study of research related to ‘global’ leadership competencies. The field of leadership studies is such a balkanized mess that the team that produced this study simply examined hundreds of papers and tried to ascertain common themes. Some of these were kinda ‘no brainers’, e.g. an innate curiosity about cultures other than one’s own, and then there was the dimension of emotional intelligence. I recall ‘resilience’ being in the mix. And, most definitely there was what was referred to as ‘cognitive complexity’…the ability to interpret date coming from multifarious sources in such as way that decisions could be made and work could move forward. All of this made sense.
I have to say I don’t recall that ANY of the hundreds of papers reviewed referenced as a global leadership competency a focus on racism, anti-racism or social justice.
Oh well…
I see that our magnificent Pope has echoed the anti-racism agenda in his latest encyclical, the release of which I guess was timed to support the edu agenda you have so diligently documented.
Oh well…
This came out yesterday https://education-reimagined.org/looking-beneath-the-surface-systems-thinking-on-the-journey-toward-transformation/
KnowledgeWorks is tied to Strive Together which as I have said is one of the listed partners in the “Thriving Together” vision. And the term ‘White Supremacy’ is now being used to describe any outcomes that are deemed not equitable. In other words, allegations of structural racism, like climate change, get used to justify what Ervin Laszlo called the Organized Society in the 70s. It was to be the successor to both capitalism and communism. It all goes back to the need to control the nature of thought in the vast majority of citizens globally.
Here’s another quote from the article that helpfully explains the crucial role of ‘mental models’:
A commenter above mentioned The Frankfurt School. A great deal of the mental model ‘architecting’ we are seeing is flowing from constructs that came out of the so-called Authoritarian Personality research. Problem is, the ‘architects’ of that research were either unaware of how their own mental models had inflected into the design of the assessment and how they interpreted it, or they cynically did not care. I believe they cynically did not care. Beyond that, I think that whole project was trumped up to provide a rationale for a social engineering project already on the table.
And speaking of nonsense cobbled together to craft mental models, see the Pope’s recent ‘Tutti Frutti’, brotherhood of man, encyclical.
One commentator noted that Francis has created a rationale for his own conclusions, meaning he frequently quotes himself to appear ‘authoritative’.
It is the same drill.
ROBIN, an FYI…I went back through another est/Erhard biography last night. It seems that a master plan was drawn up in 1978 to ‘transform’ K-12 education, religious orders, the prison system, the corporation. As part of this plan it was decided NOT to use that brand name ‘est’. As a first step CA teachers were offered ‘free’ transformational learning programs. As many at 10% of all teachers participated in these programs. The prison practice was MUCH larger than I had thought, with at least five major CA prisons being involved. As for the corporate focus…this was accomplished via the formation of consulting firms and the coaching cults.
What I can say is that so much of the language in the documents you post sounds like ‘est’-speak with the anti-racist update…only difference, really.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/public-infrastructure-civil-rights/616671/ helps explain the need for the ‘structural racism’ hype. Lauren Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ widow, is both a major investor in The Atlantic that published this new vision of the term’ public infrastructure’ that is our old MH vision. She is also funding project XQ to reimagine the nature of high schools.
I also worked on what disinformation has come to mean. We are now in a situation where governments all over the world want to control what we are to believe. What counts as ‘approved’ information. It fits with controlling the conceptual map and deemphasizing factual knowledge in K-12 and higher ed. https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/publications/resist-counter-disinformation-toolkit/ is from the UK government. Notice the Foreword about the “growing international consensus on the need to take action against disinformation, regardless of source or intent. Our vision is to strengthen the institutions of democracy and uphold our democratic values by ensuring the public and our media have the means to distinguish true news from disinformation. This starts with us, as government communicators. We hold the responsibility of delivering the truth, well told.”
What utter BS!! Clearly our servitude in the 21st century is tied to not knowing much and accepting what the political elite want us to believe and value. Disinformation becomes an Orwellian term that actually means unacceptable beliefs inconsistent with being amenable to servitude to political power implemented via a new conception of the law.
Also in the now they tell us category:
https://behavioralscientist.org/to-solve-covid-19-we-need-to-see-it-for-what-it-is-a-configuration-crisis/
A further quote that fits with all the things you cited that were to be restructured:
This was just announced this morning. https://everychildthrives.com/a-global-call-to-advance-racial-equity-by-2030/
$90 million to be given out “to drive transformative change”. Once again ‘racial equity’ becomes the excuse for a politically organized society at all levels of government and down to the nano-level of the human mind.
I am also adding this quote that is relevant to the call for ‘new mental models’
https://lawliberty.org/slouching-toward-totalitarianism/
This is certainly pertinent to why everything is coming to the same place in both your realm and mine.
That’s the abstract for “Citizen Learner Discourse and Emergent Global Knowledge Societies” found here https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3703694&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_educational:psychology:cognition:ejournal_abstractlink
Language. “Architected”. Wow.
“ You cannot fix systems if you don’t understand how they were architected in the first place,” Hannah-Jones said.”
Hey Robin, Have you ever heard of Alison McDowell? Her work overlaps with yours. She is exposing human capital bond trading.
Part 1: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Global Technocratic Takeover w/ Alison McDowell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HrCus6yFA
I would like to see that ‘research’. It makes me recall a few years back when the African American female Head of Global Diversity for Apple was fired because she suggested that a team of ‘white’ males could be ‘thought’ diverse. That said, I do get that there can be benefits attached to, say, gender diversity of boards and consulting teams. I would say this would really relate to understanding consumer needs, and corporate client perspectives. For instance, many of the health & beauty firms in Japan have women positioned in senior leadership roles, and it has been thought that the consulting teams that serve these firms should have a woman or two on them. (This is an outlier situation, however.)
It kinda goes along with a fallacy, though, that has destroyed my field…that being that only men can coach men, women coach women, gays coach gays, the disabled the disabled, ad infinitum.
I recall arguing in my SJW graduate program that Ford v. Dodge precludes many forms of CSR, but found that feelings were more important than legal decisions. I also argued from the perspective of what I have seen in corporate welfare state Japan. FYI, this nation is now desperately trying to sell emerging technology firms to western MNC’s because it cannot grow and manage competitive global enterprises. Oh well.
This is in reply to your comment further back… ‘the pope quotes himself to appear authoritative ‘ …. that is a gem !
In the late 1800s, after the pope declared himself infallible, a British pundit responded, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Hi Liv4ever, I hadn’t realized what had inspired Lord Acton’s comment, but we have lived to see its proof!
The Pope is kinda doing what I have been seeing, we have all been seeing, going on in the so-called social sciences. They go off on tangents, unhinged from standards of research practice…create whole fields and then self-reference to appear authoritative. James Lindsay, et al., do a great job of documenting how this is done in their ‘grievance studies’ work.
The Pope has just created his own genre, or permutation of infallible truth, or truthiness…which we, the ‘faithful’ are calling “Tutti Frutti”…and, I would add, leave it to a Jesuit.
This article on Why White Students Need Multicultural, Social Justice Education https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/white-students-multicultural-ed/ is featured in this week’s Education Reimagined newsletter in case there is any doubt in anyone’s mind what “student-centered education” really meant.
Notice the now known facts do not fit the narrative used to support this vision of why this type of education is necessary. Since new mental models are the key, a preference for narrative over actual reality is what is ultimately needed for the programmed transformative change agents ready to act on theory.
Adding this quote from same article–
Their voice and role in creating a socially just society is apparently best enabled by an education grounded in emotion and theoretical concepts instead of facts. Let’s not forget where Ascending from the Abstract to the Concrete came from or why it was deemed an update of Dialectical Materialism.
I have been having a series of ‘narrative’ discussions with digital marketers and they, too, seem to be in love with creating fictions rather than a compelling account of the FACTS. U.S. culture seems diseased on just about every level.
Really loved the story of the Black guy, Trump supporter getting hassled about mask protocol on an airline flight.
Sorry to report that ‘mask culture’ has achieved new levels of lunacy here in Japan. I was told to adjust my mask by a woman who was seated 50 feet away from me….foreigner, of course.
Makes the ultimate purpose about transformation all the more clear. From yesterday
https://wholelearnereducation.org/2020/10/15/america-forward-awarded-major-grant-from-the-lego-foundation-to-support-its-advancing-whole-learner-education-initiative/
Needs to Thrive. There’s that theme again. Nothing like a mask to reenforce the interdependence theme.
Plus we have this global conference with multiple time zones for coverage at the end of the month with numerous people we have covered here at ISC. https://wellbeing360.mx/ipen-en.html?mc_cid=2f7dbcefad&mc_eid=e5a76e5a55
Masks are apparently excellent symbols for the wellbeing of all emphasis of the MH society template.
Also imagine the manipulation ability of this envisioned use of virtual reality. New ways to ingest content indeed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/christosmakridis/2020/10/15/personalized-real-world-and-experiential-learning-is-the-future-of-education/#3bd01c385a65
Fits with this troubling graphic as I make it through emails. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TA-a2l9t2hTjsdKL_aUvRS8Ewb0zCzJS/view
Notice the reference to Lucid Minds and remember all the problemmatic reports we have seen from NESTA in the past.
From here https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/civic-ai-1890d93eb8ce
The dogma of papal infallibility was promulgated at the First Vatican Council in 1870. St. John Henry Cardinal Newman opposed the decision, not because he disagreed with the truth of the dogma but because he foresaw the misuses to which it could be put. (The definition is actually quite narrowly drawn, surprisingly so to anyone who has not looked closely at the matter.) Newman regarded the step as “imprudent.” In this as in so many things he was amazingly prescient. Now we are reaping the bitter fruit of this decision by the College of Cardinals. With regard to Leslie’s comment, Acton’s “absolute power” in this case was never conferred; to the extent that it is exercised, it is an abuse and invalid and illegitimate. Those who bow to it are engaging in “papal idolatry,” or as some call it, “papalotry.”
Thank you for the clarification. I was aware of the narrow construction, but, I think quite a few Catholics and other’s are not.
My sense was/is that with regard to Covid-19 all statements made by the Pope have been ‘heard’ by many Catholics as being ex-cathedra. The result has been truly terrifying.
Just an FYI,
Here are the conditions under which one may attend a ‘Christian’ church service in Tokyo.
There will be no communion and no singing at the service. You are welcome to leave your offering on the plate at the entrance to the sanctuary; we will not pass the plate from hand to hand. You will also be expected to: (1) Have a temperature of less than 37.5 ⁰C before you leave home and be willing to have your temperature taken again in the building, (2) Show no sign of illness (including allergies) and preferably not be in the high-risk category, (3) Wear a mask at all times and sanitize your hands, (4) Remain at least 2 m away from anyone not in your immediate household, and (5) Leave the building promptly after the conclusion of the service.
I can tell you that there is a sushi bar next to this facility that is operating with NO RESTRICTIONS. I can tell you that there are few/no restrictions being applied in supermarkets or small shops. There are no restrictions in public transportation. There are no restrictions on gather in parks, or for sports events. The schools are fully open and I see ‘no’ mask wearing.
Comment related to the title of your post, Robin.
OK, I do not remember the term “well-being” inching its way into my consulting world until, maybe, five years ago. I have never liked it, because it is nebulous and cannot be measured, and, I think there has yet to be established any real correlation between “well-being” and performance.
But, this might tickle you. Way back in 1972, Werner Erhard hired, seduced, mind-controlled a physician named Dr. Robert Laserle (Alta Bates Hospital, Internal Medicine) to join his newly formed ‘est’. Laserle had participated in one of Erhard’s Mind Dynamics training programs…Mind Dynamics was the precursor of ‘est’.
Dr. Laserle’s title within the ‘est’ organization was, “Director of Well-Being”, and he performed that role for eight years before WAKING THE ‘F’ UP, as to what he had gotten into. Laserle provided some of the most damning testimony against Erhard/est in the 1992 “60 Minutes” expose that promoted Erhard’s exile from the U.S.
So, the ‘term’ has been floating around…though I don’t recall it being used in Rogers/Maslow land,…may be wrong on this, though. Somebody should track this phrase to its origins.
Look who is interested in the “well-being of children” and using AI to:
https://www.baai.ac.cn/ai-for-children.html Yes, that CN is the CCP in what is called the “Beijing Consensus on Artificial Intelligence for Children”. It was referred to be the IEEE Global A/IS Ethics Initiative. Uncle Karl would certainly be enamored of an LMS’s potential to “help guide children to form sound and scientific values.” What is scientific about values, except in the Uncle Karl political sense?