The Ivan Illich Learning Web

Dear Colleagues,

This is to let our members know about some important changes established by AERA that will impact the ways all Divisions and SIGs select sessions for AERA 2010.

First, this year, sessions will be chosen by a Review Panel from amongst our SIG members.

If you are interested in volunteering to review, please go to this link to apply:

https://www.aera.net/AALogin.aspx?ReturnURL=/WS/UpdateAA.aspx

The applicants will be reviewed and panel finalized by SIG Executives by July 31. At this time, formal invitations to be a member of the Review Panel will be sent.

Please also note the following changes:

- The final date for proposals for AERA 2010 will be July15 and NOT August 1 2009
- Each proposal must have 3 reviewers who are NOT graduate students (though grad students can be an additional reviewer for each and any proposal
- Reviewing will occur in August into early September
- The number of paper sessions will be reduced from 1400 to 1000 to reduce overlap. There will be more emphasis on roundtables and poster sessions.

We strongly encourage you to volunteer for the review panel.

Thanks for you participation…

Richard Kahn

Chair, Ivan Illich SIG

AERA Conference 2010, Call For Papers / Panels: Ivan Illich SIG (#161)

We invite papers related to how Illich might respond to this year’s AERA theme, Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World. From Illich’s perspective, the ideas of “ecosystem” and an “ecological worldview” were particularly seductive. While they appeared to represent part of a movement to protect life from industrial destructiveness, he ultimately suspected that “ecology” was part of a systematic movement to manage both nature and people’s lives in accordance with the abstractions of an administrative class of professional experts. For Illich, then, complex ecologies were undoubtedly changing the world but not necessarily for the better! Papers relevant to our SIG might then involve, though not be limited to, analyses and/or critiques of:

• The Manner in Which Curricula or School Systems Represent a Global Ecology of Education
• Education for Sustainable Development Policies and Practices as Representing or Intending Complex Ecological Outcomes
• Ecology, conceived as a Scientific Standard and New Knowledge Paradigm
• Media/Information Ecologies
• The Differences Between Political and Cultural Ecologies That Organize Nature as a Commons versus Nature as a Productive Resource
• Place-Based Forms of Education or Cultural Experience
• The Ways in Which Industrial Cultures Entail Different Life Expectations and Possibilities than Pre or Post-Industrial Cultures
• The Different Knowledge Ecologies Made Possible by Alternative Educational Institutions
• How Health, Medical, and Other Social Institutions Currently Produce an Ecology of Well-Being (or Unwell-Being)
• And, How Global Social Systems Frame, Integrate, or Otherwise Constrain Lived Experiences of the Local in Either a Contemporary or Historical Context

Please note: we are also happy to accept paper and panel proposals that extend beyond the scope of the specific call for papers issued here.

Important Announcements

* Call for Submissions will be posted on May 15, 2009
* Online Submission System will Open June 1, 2009
* Paper & Session Submissions: Deadline July 15, 2009

If you have any questions about a possible proposal for the Ivan Illich SIG, please feel free to contact our SIG Chair, Richard Kahn (rvkahn@gmail.com).

Please come join us for two exciting sessions in San Diego!

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Beyond Absurdistan: What Ivan Illich Knew (and the Rest of Us Overlooked)

Schedule Information:

Scheduled Time: Tue, Apr 14 – 8:15am – 10:15am
Building/Room: San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina / Irvine

Session Participants:

Discussant: David A. Greenwood (Washington State University)

Alternatives in Education or Alternatives to Education?
- Madhu Suri Prakash (The Pennsylvania State University)
- Dana L. Stuchul (The Pennsylvania State University)

Displaced Lives: Finding a Curriculum of Place in a Globalizing World
- Kristin D. Jones (University of Illinois – Chicago)

Ivan Illich: A Voice in the Dark and a Voice of Reason
- Lynda George (Central Connecticut State University)

Revisiting Ivan Illich on Gender: Food and Feminism
- Marguerite K Rivage-Seul (Berea College)
- Madhu Suri Prakash (The Pennsylvania State University)

The Educator’s Secret and Modern Stupidity
- Daniel G. Grego (TransCenter for Youth, Inc.)

Chair: Dana L. Stuchul (The Pennsylvania State University)
Chair: Madhu Suri Prakash (The Pennsylvania State University)

Abstract:

Exploring issues that expose the absurdities of contemporary existence, this paper session will provide insight (through 5 distinct paper contributions) into paths leading beyond globalized, highly technologized, abstract, and de-natured Absurdistan. Using the broad framework of Illich’s theoretical contributions, each paper will contribute to the larger conversation of how we live, learn, eat, suffer, and die more humanely.

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New Directions in Illichian Scholarship and Pedagogy

Schedule Information:

Scheduled Time: Tue, Apr 14 – 6:15pm – 7:45pm
Building/Room: San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina / Newport Beach

Note: This will be combined with the SIG’s business meeting. There will be food and refreshments.

Session Participants:

Chair: Douglas Kellner (University of California – Los Angeles)

Illich’s Live Presence Through Second Life: A Reflective Update on the Legacy of Conviviality
- Yolanda Gayol (Fielding Graduate University)

Under/Over-development as Institutional Intentionality: IIlich Against Educational Policy
- Dolores Calderon (University of Utah)
- Clayton Pierce (University of Utah)

From Freire to Illich: For an Epimethean Critical Pedagogy
- Richard Kahn (University of North Dakota)

The School and the Camp: Thinking Through Ivan Illich’s Radical Critique of Schooling with Giorgio Agamben
- Tyson E. Lewis (Montclair State University) ***Paper will be on hand only***

Abstract:

This symposium panel will contain four presentations that seek to provide new theoretical and pedagogical directions for Ivan Illich’s work. The first will argue that critical pedagogy has been overly defined by the spirit of Freirian Prometheanism and now requires the greater development of what Illich called an “Epimethean” attitude. A second presentation will relate Illich’s statements on urban education to the contemporary political theory of Giorgio Agamben. A third will examine Illich’s views on institutional technocracy in light of both the neo-Sputnik science policy in education and the colonialist nature of school textbooks. A final presentation will outline an online pedagogical experiment conducted in the virtual world Second Life that was modeled after the seminars Illich conducted in Cuernavaca, Mexico. As detailed in The Critical Pedagogy Reader (Darder, et. al., 2003, Illich has to be considered a foundational figure for the field of critical pedagogy. Thus, the idea of this symposium is to demonstrate the wide availability of Illich’s work to present work in critical pedagogy, postcolonial and critical race theory and critical theory. Further, by framing this panel as a symposium, we hope to generate dialogue between the panelists and the audience, to illicit other ongoing projects, and to deliberate on scholarly and pedagogical paths that may hold openings for the creative application of Illich’s ideas.