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While highlighting and legally abolishing the worst excesses (like sati), emphasizing female education, and mobilizing women for satyagraha, the movement gave the illusion of change while women were kept within the structural confines of family and society. Revolutionary alternatives or radical social changes affecting women's lives did not become an essential part of the demands of the nationalist movement at any stage of the long struggle for independence, and a revolutionary feminist consciousness did not arise within the movement for national liberation.
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World
Kumari Jayawardena
What now passes as "educational technology" is too often uninformed by the sciences of learning. It offers a depoliticized pedagogy of streaming video, didactic instruction, and mouse-and-click test prep. Lessons about the consumption of web-based content learned in school are taken home by students, where they consume hours of streamsysing video a day, clicking through an endless variety of claims, answers, and "facts," careening through a cultural techno-info-dreamscape.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Don’t think that the Gini coefficient alone will describe the situation, however; this would be succumbing to monocausotaxophilia, the love of single ideas that explain everything, one of humanity’s most common cognitive errors.
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
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