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The world is alive and refuses mastery.

by Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.Leave a Comment on The world is alive and refuses mastery.
The world is alive and refuses mastery.

Mastery- and competency-based assessment are the same old sorting and ranking system just in sheep’s clothing.Both start from the same ontological delusion: that something can be mastered, that we stand apart from knowledge, that learning is a discrete event that can be demonstrated once and then carried across every context. It’s the fantasy of decontextualization, [...]

Benjamin, Biocentrism, Emergent Learning, Posthumanism, regenerative education

We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t.

by Benjamin Freud, Ph.D.Leave a Comment on We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t.
We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t.

We aren’t going to change the system. We can’t. The very idea that we can change the system is what keeps it intact. It feeds the illusion that we stand outside it, looking down like engineers or gods, swapping one system for another. But that separation is false. We are not outside. We are the [...]