Stuart said:
does anyone out there know
>of any links between Foucault and Ivan Illich?
>
>I've had a friend trying to convince me (unsuccessfully) that Foucault must
>have read and been influenced by Illich, as their ideas were so similar. >
Ana says:
There are several common ideas between Foucault and Illich. Foucault would
say: it doesn´t matter if I read or not the books of Illich; the important
thing is to know why in the middle of this centuary some modern ideas
related to education are being criticised. The analisys that Foucault makes
about the exam as the way in which discourses take place in disciplinarys
societies has a lot of consequences in education. Nevertheless, he
legintimated exams in universities (in an intervieuw) with poor arguments.
Both, foucault and Illich, from my point of view, rejected education as
extortion (that is, in the form that catholisism gave to education, as an
intermediate step that conducts us to paradise -certificates- or to
hell -not having a certificate-)
Bye
Ana
does anyone out there know
>of any links between Foucault and Ivan Illich?
>
>I've had a friend trying to convince me (unsuccessfully) that Foucault must
>have read and been influenced by Illich, as their ideas were so similar. >
Ana says:
There are several common ideas between Foucault and Illich. Foucault would
say: it doesn´t matter if I read or not the books of Illich; the important
thing is to know why in the middle of this centuary some modern ideas
related to education are being criticised. The analisys that Foucault makes
about the exam as the way in which discourses take place in disciplinarys
societies has a lot of consequences in education. Nevertheless, he
legintimated exams in universities (in an intervieuw) with poor arguments.
Both, foucault and Illich, from my point of view, rejected education as
extortion (that is, in the form that catholisism gave to education, as an
intermediate step that conducts us to paradise -certificates- or to
hell -not having a certificate-)
Bye
Ana