tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5053151003977377665.post2436908397720349847..comments2024-02-23T05:11:31.034-08:00Comments on Always Formative: Between Silence and SilencingJason Buellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03029995715142652159noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5053151003977377665.post-21503270343271865972013-10-02T17:38:25.074-07:002013-10-02T17:38:25.074-07:00Thanks Jason -- thought-provoking. I'm in a s...Thanks Jason -- thought-provoking. I'm in a similar position in some ways (maybe we all are in some ways?). <br /><br />I wonder what you would think (or what you do think, if you've read them already) of the anthology Michelle Tea edited called _Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class_, or the work of Dorothy Allison or Minnie Bruce Pratt, especially about class. Radical Teacher magazine is another resource I find helpful and too challenging to read quickly. <br /><br />Recently I've been thinking about this because my school puts a big push on promoting entrepreneurism; the province where I live has chronically high unemployment and self-employment seems to be promoted as a solution, as if it can abolish the class system. It's hard to disagree with encouraging people to stop assuming someone else has to be the boss and start thinking they can be the boss; at the same time, there is no corresponding promotion of the labour movement. The entrepreneurship programs are funded by business development corporations; I wonder what my school's response would be if unions or labour federations wanted to come into the school and put on ongoing, high-profile programs and competition promoting themselves? I can't help but think it wouldn't go over the same way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com