Friday, July 24, 2015

Adam Bartlett - Devoid of Truth/Devoid of Education: For the agents of change there is nothing new under the sun.


Devoid of Truth/Devoid of Education: For the agents of change there is nothing new under the sun. 


The rhetoric of change and innovation which is at the heart of the BIP document, as it is has been at the heart of countless education policy documents for at least 40 years, is at the heart of the discourse of capitalism itself. ‘All that is solid melts into air’ as Marx put it: continually. Change at the level of modification or innovation or whatever term is currently the vogue is deemed the essential subjective feature for all bodies and institutions who seek to be counted to exist within its remit.