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Two Concepts Of Education, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Two Concepts Of Education, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The foundation of the current discourse on education is grounded in the funding and distribution of a ‘good’ called education. The Common Core State Standards, as a set of shared goals stipulated by the federal government, considers education to be a “stepping stone” towards joining the workforce in a competitive global marketplace. The lexicon of economic commodities instrumentalizes education due to its tacit assumption that education is a means to an occupational end. It treats education as an individual possession deposited by a school, via its teachers, into …