The Ivan Illich Learning Web

Greetings colleagues!

It is with great pleasure that I announce the inaugural publication of The International Journal of Illich Studies (ISSN 1948-4666 / DOI 10.4198), which is freely available online at: http://ivan-illich.org/journal. The first issue’s Table of Contents is enclosed below for your convenience.

The International Journal of Illich Studies is a non-profit, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to engaging and extending the thought and writing of Ivan Illich and his circle. We will publish twice yearly, and are currently accepting submissions for April, 2010.

Articles are invited on any subject that intersects with the wide range of IIlich’s ideas, or that represent a version of the social critique for which he became famous on matters such as modern developmentalism, industrialized “progress,” institutional bureaucratization, the heuristic role played by historical consciousness, the privatization / publicization of the lay commons, and the necessity of making moral responses in the face of our worldly crisis.

We are also interested in critical essay reviews of potentially relevant literature and media, as well as personal reflections and stories that document the living tradition associated with Illich and his circle.

Each issue will additionally bring forth rare or previously unavailable archival materials of scholarly and intellectual interest.

Please take a moment to investigate our new journal. I welcome your feedback and look forward to your possible submissions.

Clayton Pierce, Ph.D. (clayton.pierce@utah.edu)
Editor

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International Journal of Illich Studies Vol 1, No 1 (2009)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Volume 1, Number 1

Articles

Illich’s Table

Three Invitations

Myth Maker, Story Weaver Ivan Illich: On the Rebirth of Epimetheus

Understanding the Logic of Educational Encampment: From Illich to Agamben

Critical Pedagogy Taking the Illich Turn

Book Reviews

Review of Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, Edited by Matt Hern

Review of The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge, Edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson

Review of Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity, Edited by David Gruenewald and Gregory Smith

Review of Escaping Education: Living as Learning in Grassroots Cultures (2nd Edition), By Madhu Suri Prakash and Gustavo Esteva

Documents, Letters, and Other Materials

FOIA Request: Declassified FBI Files of Ivan Illich – End Matter

Ivan Illich SIG members are encouraged to support and work with Division B, Section 4 as we attempt to build community between the SIG and Section. Our SIG call for papers will be posted shortly, in the meantime, please take notice of the following call below and forward widely to any potentially interested parties…

Division B: Curriculum Studies

Division B invites proposals on curriculum studies broadly defined. Curriculum scholarship includes a wide range of inquiries from all kinds of methodological and philosophical perspectives conducted by people examining theory and practice, policy and development, enactment and evaluation. While submissions have traditionally focused on formal educational institutions at all levels and in a variety of settings, we strongly encourage submissions that transgress those boundaries and are focused on curriculum found in other parts of our lives and all over the world and submissions that center work for justice.  We particularly welcome proposals relevant to this conference’s theme: Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World. Both individual paper and session proposals will be reviewed anonymously, and, therefore, abstracts and summaries must not identify any participants by name.  For more information, please contact the appropriate section chair, or for general questions contact the program chairs: Therese Quinn, School of the Art institute of Chicago, tquinn@saic.edu and Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, E-Meiners@neiu.edu.

Division B, Section 4:  Ecological and Community Justice

“How do we know our place in the world?” Increasingly we live in a global age where notions of personal and collective identity are being mass produced through a hidden curriculum constituted internally and externally through forces of transnational capitalism, militarism and industrialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, speciesism, as well as other modes of oppression. We also participate in a variety of oppositional, alternative, and transformative movements such as traditional ecological knowledge, place-based education, and other means of enabling alternative social imaginaries and worldwide collectivities for planetarity. We thus invite papers that examine how groups inside and outside of educational institutions work against a complex array of threats to nature and culture and how they are producing diverse varieties of pedagogical struggle to reclaim, reinhabit, and revitalize the commons. We are interested in interdisciplinary perspectives that inform the possibility of achieving epistemological shifts in how we think about identity, community, and culture in relation to our places in the world and our ethical and political orientations to sustainability and social justice.

Section Co-Chairs:

Dolores Calderon (dolores.calderon@utah.edu),
Richard Kahn (richard.kahn@und.edu),
Marcia McKenzie (marcia.mckenzie@usask.ca)

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

In case anyone is interested, Ivan’s book ‘The Church, Change, and Development,’ from the 1960s, has been scanned and made available as a PDF, gratis. Here:

http://douloschristou.com/illich

And here, in a related blog, one can download a talk recently given recently by John McKnight, all about Ivan’s life and work:

http://erb.kingdomnow.org/?p=272

John W. Verity