[lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why

[Jeffrey Fisher]

Very interesting stuff. I am only just dipping into it, looking for
ammunition, at the moment, in arguments that mary beard is on the
right side<http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/04/why-good-practice-can-ruin-good-practice.html#more>,
but of course that's just a small part of the larger fight you mention. This
is absolutely not just a problem in a public schools (US version), by the
way. Where I am now and where I was last are both private, and in both
places we are fighting this . . . well, some of us are trying. But that's
part of what Shore/Wright discuss in their piece . . . really depressing.
And I didn't know that about Diane Wright. Being only a quasi-anthropologist
in a sidelong way, I don't know the peeps, mostly.

Speaking of Bloom's taxonomy, is there anything resembling empirical
evidence supporting it? Or is it just something that Bloom pulled out of his
behind and everybody glommed onto it? I've not gone and read the book --
which, yes, I suppose I should do, just 'cuz nobody who *espouses* the
taxomony has read it, either -- but it seems to be entirely what you might
call *a priori* in nature . . .

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hey Jeff:
> There's some great stuff in that volume, no?
> Diane was TQMed right out of a job in the early 90s...
> Stuff in that book is so prescient relative to the whole teaching
> effectiveness and learning assessment stuff going on across public
> universities these days... so much so that McGraw-Hill is working on
> accommodating such things, usually expressed in terms of pre- and
> post-tests
> rooted in Bloom's Taxonomy, into their textbooks and web augmentation...
> oy.
> A
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:30 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > http://cleandraws.com/2010/04/10/shagalize-button/
> >
> >
> > ok that was totally worth my dipping into this thread. i've just been
> > reading an essay from Audit
> > Cultures<
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Audit-Cultures-Anthropological-Accountability-Anthropologists/dp/0415233275/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270920407&sr=1-4
> > >
> > (the
> > one by Shore and Wright) on auditing and academia (specifically,
> > anthropology, but of course the issues are broader than that and are
> > addressed in that way). The whole TQM thing was of course a huge part of
> > this essay, and so Continuous Quality Improvement. Although, I really
> don't
> > like how un-transparent your Shagalization logarithms are: transparentize
> > urself! Submit to the Total Quality Panopticon!
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