Article(print)1998

Decolonizing Society

In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Volume 10, Issue 1, p. 107-112

Gabbard, David A

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Abstract

Examines development discourse & educational discourse as components of global economization, focusing on how economic interests dominate the US system of mandatory education. The close association of education & international development with progress is discussed. The origins of development discourse in medieval Europe as part of the political strategy of economization, which formally separated economics from society & culture, is described. It is shown how economization sees scarcity as necessary to human existence, transforming basic needs into unlimited wants & destroying the heterogeneity of traditional societies in Europe & its colonies. It is argued that the imposition of development discourse & economization on colonized peoples is similar to the dominance of economic concerns in US public schools. It is hoped that, by understanding the link between current educational discourse & this economic mode of human understanding & action, educators will band together to de-economize the public schools &, thus, decolonize society. T. Arnold

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