The Critical Turn in Education | James Lindsay

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🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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The Marxification of Education Workshop, Session 1 Education has been stolen from us and from our children. Yes, stolen. It was deliberately transformed from within into something that is barely education at all anymore. Instead, it's a systematic program of thought reform (brainwashing) into neo-Marxist belief and activism. How has this been accomplished? The formal name for the transformation is "the critical turn in education," which "turned" education from traditional models of pedagogy to "Critical Pedagogy," the application and teaching of Critical Theory to and through the education system. Its purpose: to overcome what Marxists refer to as "the problem of reproduction," by which stable societies reproduce themselves from one generation to the next, especially through institutions involving children like religion, family, media, and especially education. Here, New Discourses Founder James Lindsay summarizes this "turn" in this first of four presentations on the Marxification of Education delivered in late July 2022 in Arlington, Virginia, on location in the now-famous Loudoun County, ground zero for the fight for America's schools. As a result of the research that produced this lecture series, Lindsay has written a detailed and accessible book on the issue titled The Marxification of Education, which is available for preorder now: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Session 2: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/10/paulo-freires-critical-method-of-education/ Session 3: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/groomer-schools/ Session 4: https://newdiscourses.com/2022/11/social-emotional-learning-sel/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Subscribe to New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	I wish I was going to start this off with lots of humor other than that weird joke I just made.
0:06.9	But I have bad news,
0:09.4	educations and a lot of trouble. And I've been trying to think about it and think about it and the
0:14.0	more I read about it and the more I've watched and the more like last night, you know, you think
0:18.6	what you're doing is probably out partying than I before his workshop because last chance.
0:23.4	But no, in fact, I went down another social emotional learning rabbit hole and found more and
0:29.8	more documents and you start realizing just how pervasive this problem is education is in
0:35.1	big trouble. To the point where now I am extraordinarily worried about the entire educational system
0:40.7	and this isn't one of these kind of raw, raw government schools or the problem kind of talks.
0:46.4	Education as a system overall is in big trouble and I want to lay most of the blame for that
0:53.6	trouble on a dead Brazilian guy by the name of Paulo Freide that we will talk about quite a lot since
0:59.0	I said it. I think correctly with the Portuguese I'll spell it for you because he's going to come
1:03.4	up a whole bunch of times. It is F-R-E-I-R-E. Paulo is spelled P-A-U-L-O. Paulo Freide.
1:12.9	What's happened is our schools have adopted Paulo Freide's methods and in other words your
1:16.6	kids go to Paulo Freide's schools and virtually everything follows from there. Paulo Freide is a
1:22.4	character we're going to talk a lot about more this afternoon or this evening. I'm going to tell you
1:27.2	how we got to Paulo Freide being significant in this lecture. But I want to give you a picture of
1:32.5	what I mean about education being in big trouble. If you think about everybody's favorite democratic
1:36.5	twerker, Tara Mack, who recently was very famous for replacing the Washington Monument with her
1:42.2	upside down twerking antics on the beach, that's a meme. That's a joke. Ha ha. Tara Mack,
1:50.3	when this horrific shooting in Ovalde came, it happened and unfolded and whatever horrific stories go
1:57.0	with that is another matter. She immediately took to Twitter activism as one does and she immediately
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