ext_18863 ([identity profile] labelleizzy.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] velvetpage 2010-06-07 01:54 am (UTC)

us overeducated teacher types can sometimes use a lot of jargon.

if you were going to explain what you are thinking about here to a non-teacher, would you use different language?

and AFAICT, Hegemony has the connotation of rulership or even forceful conversion to a given gulture (i.e. Greek hegemony in Macedonia and Crete in classical times) vs. acculturation, your term, is less forceful and more gradual in my view. Also, perhaps, kinder.

p.s. the students don't have to accept the hierarchical authority. Many simply won't. In a discussion about respect earlier today with my spouse, the question who gets respect? how is it earned? should I get respect automatically or do I have to earn it?

Do those students have to leave the educational establishment because they refuse to "give respect" to adults who have not earned it? Is that the right thing? Can there be other models of behavior and coping with the hierarchical strata that these kids will find actually align with the kids' own values? And do those other models *have* to be subversive by definition, or can they just be a case of "thinking outside the box"?

I look forward to your further cogitations on this topic.

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