The Daily Grind

The Daily Grind Phillip Jackson

Interesting note on how children are socialized into our semiotic systems of control (image/png)

“part of learning to live in a school involves learning how to give up desire as well as how to wait for its fulfillment"

“social solitude"

“learn to labor and to wait” and to suffer in silence students learn to shape their public perceptions

     -> Living online, with persistence of daily life, probably exacerbates these qualities. 

What ways of being are possible but suppressed by school? Spontaneity,  learning to fake interest, to inure yourself to the pressure (and pain) of assessment

Internalization / externalization of functions      Power as an interpretive system; classroom drama.       James Scott: “Weapons of the Weak"

How connected are classrooms to the outside world? Are they sheltered or isolated? Algebra project connects handing over power pedagogically (you decide if you’re right) to explicit political advocacy.