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Wild Captioning lyn hejinian Prefatory Comments What follows is an attempt to address an unruly array of ideas and experiences related to a rough triad of concerns and involvements: The first component of this triad I'll cite is the rapidly escalating crisis confronting public education and, more generally, all sectors of the public sphere. This crisis has come to a head in a number of places throughout the world, including, and somewhat early on, in my home state of California, where severe cuts to budgets for public education have been "necessitated" by a large-scale economic downturn. This crisis, brought on by factors within capitalist investment strategies, has been manipulated to justify a capitalist takeover of the public sphere, and especially education, which is seen as a potential site for new investment, and hence profitmaking, opportunities. The first victims of the privatization effort are those that remain public. The result is what might be called third-world conditions in K­12 classrooms (though it should be noted that, as soon as development has made any notable progress in nations in the third world, one of the first areas to receive increased funding and other kinds of support is education), and enormous tuition increases http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

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lyn hejinian Prefatory Comments What follows is an attempt to address an unruly array of ideas and experiences related to a rough triad of concerns and involvements: The first component of this triad I'll cite is the rapidly escalating crisis confronting public education and, more generally, all sectors of the public sphere. This crisis has come to a head in a number of places throughout the world, including, and somewhat early on, in my home state of California, where severe cuts to budgets for public education have been "necessitated" by a large-scale economic downturn. This crisis, brought on by factors within capitalist investment strategies, has been manipulated to justify a capitalist takeover of the public sphere, and especially education, which is seen as a potential site for new investment, and hence profitmaking, opportunities. The first victims of the privatization effort are those that remain public. The result is what might be called third-world conditions in K­12 classrooms (though it should be noted that, as soon as development has made any notable progress in nations in the third world, one of the first areas to receive increased funding and other kinds of support is education), and enormous tuition increases

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social SciencesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 20, 2011

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