Comments on: Bizzell’s Critical Pedagogy http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/08/24/bizzells-critical-pedagogy/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Chris http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/08/24/bizzells-critical-pedagogy/#comment-174 Chris Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2003/08/24/bizzells-critical-pedagogy/#comment-174 I've always liked Bizzell's stuff, but I've not read this piece. What strikes me is that the quote you provide above stares into the face of what lots of your research seems to suggest: That the academy, while putatively offering a path of breaking out of the status quo (ref. V. Villanueva, M. Rose, Richard Rodriguez)--narratives of class ascendancy--it at the same time refigures the class relationships to say "The identifying markers of your class are bad. Those of ours are good." Isn't that about as status quo as you can get? That is, isn't it profoundly unrevolutionary to see posited [present class stratum + n] as the goal of not only education, but of selling one's labor at all? I'll admit that I'm sleepy and there are a lot of problems with the above, but something here doesn't seem to square properly. I guess I'm thinking particularly of Rodriguez's book here. I'll spare you reading more and may get back to this when I'm more alert. I’ve always liked Bizzell’s stuff, but I’ve not read this piece. What strikes me is that the quote you provide above stares into the face of what lots of your research seems to suggest: That the academy, while putatively offering a path of breaking out of the status quo (ref. V. Villanueva, M. Rose, Richard Rodriguez)–narratives of class ascendancy–it at the same time refigures the class relationships to say “The identifying markers of your class are bad. Those of ours are good.” Isn’t that about as status quo as you can get?

That is, isn’t it profoundly unrevolutionary to see posited [present class stratum + n] as the goal of not only education, but of selling one’s labor at all? I’ll admit that I’m sleepy and there are a lot of problems with the above, but something here doesn’t seem to square properly. I guess I’m thinking particularly of Rodriguez’s book here. I’ll spare you reading more and may get back to this when I’m more alert.

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