tailieunhanh - THE LINGUISTICS, NEUROLOGY, AND POLITICS OF PHONICS - PART 9

Tôi bắt đầu những lời nói đầu của cuốn sách này với một đặc tính của cảnh hiện hành trong lĩnh vực giáo dục đọc, và giáo dục nói chung, như một cuộc tấn công trực diện của chính phủ đối với giáo viên, học sinh và cha mẹ. Cuộc tấn công này đang được thực hiện thay mặt cho khách hàng doanh nghiệp của chính phủ | Part I DEFENDING SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY AGAINST NEOPHONICS In order to obtain a definite result one must want to obtain namely that result if you want to obtain a definite result you will obtain it. . I need only those people who obtain what I need. Lysenko cited in Sheehan 1993 p. 223 14 Chapter I I The Neophonics Counterrevolution in Science I began the preface of this book with a characterization of the current scene in reading education and education in general as a frontal assault by the government against teachers students and parents. This assault is being undertaken on behalf of the government s corporate clients who in fact represent only a small minority of the population. Under attack are not only quality public education but science and democracy as well. Unless this attack is repudiated the complex social fabric that interweaves education science and democracy is doomed to unravel. At risk are the victories and gains of past struggles that have won the rights to public education academic freedom and freedom of speech and thought. The first step in defending against this attack is to understand where it is coming from as well as the nature of the weaponry being used. Then we can face the problem head on and disarm the attackers with appropriate arguments. Without playing their game the sallies of the resistance will be far more effective and convincing if they are based on quality education trustworthy science and democratic decision making. For every single policy program two fundamental questions need to be posed Who benefits from this program Who loses from it I have tried to provide preliminary answers to both of these questions. As I have argued the government s program is a scheme to remake the . labor force. It is the domestic side of the neoliberal program of globalization or free trade among nonequals with corporate America occupying the position of first among nonequals and doing what it feels it needs to do to maintain that status. 159 160