“Downloaded this on Saturday…oh boy as an extrapolation of Schumacher’s work it’s awful…on the briefest of inspections one can see that inequality is not stated as necessitating change…Schumachians talk about economy based on a balance of forces but this document strikes one as neoliberalist apologism for a market lead education system that is seen as simply needing reform…as such it’s typical of the bi-polar approach that characterises the struggle for sustainability as a simple either/or choice and takes no account of the need to transform the lives of billions of working people for how can that be achieved without a more equitable (socialised and communised as well as individualised), education system? Competition in the wider economy (a necessary component of the emergence of economy -not “new” an economy is an efficiency if it wasn’t before then you cannot call it an “economy”-), must, therefore, be present within the various educational institutions. Surely this biodiversity is the only way? This doc. reads like “our shite don’t smell” middle class apologism. I was hoping for better, I’ll try and find out more about what E.F said.” From email to fellow UNITE Community member.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289505456_Sustainable_education
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