After Cooperation: The Metabolic Turn in Education

After Cooperation: The Metabolic Turn in Education

Thirty-five years after Jomtien, the grammar of international cooperation in education still assumes that progress depends on alignment between states and shared global targets. What passes for cooperation follows a logic of alignment without mutual transformation, one that can no longer hold in a world whose boundaries have dissolved. The idea that states and institutions (transnational [...]

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, [...]