LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Freedom, Fordism, Eurocentrism
23 Apr 2013
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The early education system was run by charitable or religious organizations. Public education was only instituted in the mid late 18th century. The focus of early education was on basic skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Higher levels of schooling were in reality open to only the few who could afford it. In the post war era we see the growth of youth cultures (films, music, arts) Youth rebellion grew in response to the alienation of the fordist system (schools, work, psychiatry) Early youth rebellion took the forms of street gangs, music, car, cultures, and art. The postwar period was a rise in enrollment in post secondary education. In the 1960s students across the world begin to organize on a mass scale. Students demanded more control of their education, universal access, non eurocentric education, greater free speech, intellectual freedom and an end to the corporatization/militarization of higher liearning. The burgeoning second wave feminist movement also challenged male centered education.
