At the beginning of the twentieth century there was a decisive new movement in philosophy characterized by Rorty as 'the linguistic turn'. If I had to summarize it in a nutshell, I'd say it was the shift from a search for truth to a search for meaning. I personally think it's time to move beyond this shift, but it is as entrenched in cultural discourse as concepts like value and fairness. It's hard even to find words to express the alternative. Anyhow, all this is to introduce this interesting interview with Tina Kullenberg, who criticizes the 'monologic' approach to education that "seemed to be to draw children up from participatory contextual meaning into more systematic conceptual meaning," arguing instead in favour of a context-based 'dialogic' model where "participation is essential for meaning and the participatory bond between children and their worlds should not be broken." And you can see my own meta-critique in perspective here, where I ask my education should be about 'meaning' at all, instead of (say) experience, growth, or connection.
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