BEIJING: China issued its first national action plan to build a "strong education nation" by 2035, which it said would help coordinate its education development, improve efficiencies in innovation and build a "strong country". The plan, issued by the Communist Party's central committee and the State C
  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    19 hours ago

    China’s ambitious education plan seems to promise quality and accessibility, but we must ask: what kind of education will it promote?

    Why ask questions when you intend to answer them yourself and are most likely (speaking from experience) going to ignore any answers received?

    True education awakens class consciousness and challenges power structures

    The first part is true but the second part is not. The second part presupposes that whatever power structures are in place must always be challenged. You are imposing your own ideology in education. And I know that you are not talking about criticizing or improving the power structures, but rebelling against them because of your next sentence.

    but education shaped by the state can become a tool for reinforcing conformity, obedience, and the status quo.

    Basically, you want chinese education to become a tool for your euro-centric ideology to forment civil disobedience, in service of your euro-centric goals.

    As Marxist theory teaches us

    What Marxist theory theory actually teaches us is that we must be critical of everything, including our own biases and circumstances. You are applying your own ideology, developed under the experience of capitalist dictatorship to a socialist society.

    • tiredturtle@lemmy.ml
      36·
      19 hours ago

      I think there’s a misunderstanding. I’m not claiming to have any answers, and I’m being critical of my own biases too. Marxism teaches us to question everything to see if they serve the working class or just maintain power.

      When I say ‘challenge power structures,’ I mean education should help people understand class struggle and how to improve society, not just obey the system blindly. This isn’t about imposing some ‘Euro-centric’ idea but asking if education is helping build socialism or just keeping things the same. It’s an universal issue.

      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        17 hours ago

        Marxism teaches us to question everything to see if they serve the working class or just maintain power.

        But this power itself could very well be working class power. Maintaining such power would not be a problem, and indeed should be the goal of socialist education.

        When I say ‘challenge power structures,’ I mean education should help people understand class struggle and how to improve society, not just obey the system blindly.

        Again, teaching children to blindly obey authority figures is not something you can accuse Chinese society of doing without actually compiling and analysing data/evidence.

        This isn’t about imposing some ‘Euro-centric’ idea but asking if education is helping build socialism or just keeping things the same. It’s an universal issue.

        Universalism itself is a rather euro-centric idea. The European colonists were eager to declare their ideas as universal and to apply them to other societies.

        The only way to actually address issues in Chinese society is to first investigate into specific details in Chinese societies. Making general claims/questions is not helpful. Especially not when they are made against a country with one of the richest surviving marxist traditions.