A deconstructive touch is called for, exposing the assumptions that organize higher education and the university classroom and encouraging students to
deschool (in Ivan Illich's phrase) themselves.
Education for survival and the unlearning of newly irrelevant behaviours/ knowledge is supported by the work of Ivan Illich and his call to
deschool society replacing traditional classroom learning methods with cooperatively initiated learning webs (1970).
To decolonize IR is to
deschool oneself from the discipline in its current dominant manifestations: to remember international relations, one needs to forget IR.
My readings and ruminations pushed me to
deschool myself and my classrooms.
But it also means that we must
deschool our communities and perhaps all of society.
We must
deschool society, as author Ivan Illich put it back in 1970, rather than merely reform the institution.
Imagine (after Walter Benjamin) a
deschooled schoolroom in which "to read" is not to decipher but simply to cite.
This book is a collection of short pieces on
deschooled education, both in theory and in practice, many of them from hard-to-obtain magazines, and some specially written.
Learning relations: Impure education,
deschooled schools, & dialogue with evil.
(2002) Learning relations: Impure education,
deschooled schools & dialogue with evil.