[jobim]

I posted the following at an Ayers thread this morning. But its relavance touches all things educational, such as a partial explanation for the amoral reaction of this young UC student:

The greatest damage to our Republic by Ayers is being inflicted now; moreso than in his Weatherman days.

All need to research the word Constructivism and education. This is a nation-wide trend now corrupting teaching programs and filtering into high and elementary schools public and private.

I know this because the Catholic school where I teach is now launching such a program, and in my research, lo and behold, Ayers pops up everywhere as one of the prophets of Constuctivism.

Philosophically, it is a descendant of Deconstruction (Foucault, Derrida, ad nauseum) and it drinks from the spring of relativism.

Fuzzy math, creative spelling, emotion-based instruction, non-competition, all-values-are-equal, group learning - you know the sad refrain.

One more thing: content (what is actually taught) fades away to relative unimportance.

[Blind Eye Jones]

From what you’ve described Deconstruction was about tearing down the dominant discourse of capitalism and Constructionism is the attempt to create a new social structure in its place. But they both emanate from the same malcontent source... communism.