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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dear Steve <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Thanks for this article of yours. I am writing this letter to the whole group as I think there are some fundamental questions which might be of interest to everyone in this group. . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>. You have said and I quote <span style='color:#1F497D'>“</span></span><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>For the major existential problems the world faces today, we need another sea change, one that places governance in the hands of the public, of governments, of civil society and of a more participatory democracy. Privatization is a scourge. Climate and other environmental catastrophes, the pandemic, ongoing wars and violence, continued hunger, poverty, and inequality, rampant sexism and racism are not only not solvable by business but are<span style='color:#7E7E7E'> </span><u><span style='color:#ED1C24;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/conscience-progressive" target="_blank"><span style='color:#ED1C24'>exacerbated by the workings of neoliberal capitalism, perhaps by capitalism in any form.</span></a>” <o:p></o:p></span></u></span></i></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>It seems that you still have a lot of faith in “governments” , although you do mention civil society and more participatory democracy. Presumably you have some other form of “government “ in mind and not the 190 odd Nation States of today , capitalist or socialist ( when they existed ) <span style='color:#7E7E7E'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>While you have made your views very clear regarding this festering public vs private basic education debate, you do not seem to critique “institutional education” ( public or private ) which Illich started so many years back. But you advocate for more funds, more professionals for “public primary education” which so many years back Illich had said is an inevitable outcome of liberal national school educational reviews. <span style='color:#7E7E7E'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Incidentally in India both Gandhi and Tagore had experimented with education opposed to INDUSTRIALISM. All this is relevant as very soon we are going to discuss Unitierra which owes a lot to Illich’s and Gustavo Esteva’s churnings on a different human destiny away from last two hundred years of spectacular industrial civilization , and the governments which have superbly coordinated this industrialism. The Zapatista movement is already experimenting with a very different school education which does not fall neatly in this public – private axis. <span style='color:#7E7E7E'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#7E7E7E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sujit <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces@lists.ourproject.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steven J. Klees<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 22, 2022 2:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <gta-pedagog@lists.ourproject.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Luci Attala <l.attala@uwtsd.ac.uk>; dan baron <danbaronmst@hotmail.com>; Laura Rival <laura.rival@qeh.ox.ac.uk>; Elizabeth Rahman <elizabeth.rahman@ctl.ox.ac.uk>; Amanda Janoo <amanda@wellbeingeconomy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [PeDAGoG] my blog on UNESCO's GEM Report on the privatization of education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FYI. NORRAG (<a href="https://www.norrag.org/">https://www.norrag.org/</a>) just published a blog of mine on UNESCO's 2021/22 Global Education Monitoring Report on non-state actors in education. The Report has some things to commend it but I find it falls far short of what is needed as well as reflect on the privatization of education more broadly. A quote from my blog: "Privatization is a scourge." <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.norrag.org/the-privatization-of-education-reflections-on-unescos-gem-report-on-non-state-actors/" target="_blank">https://www.norrag.org/the-privatization-of-education-reflections-on-unescos-gem-report-on-non-state-actors/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Steve<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Steven J. Klees</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Former President and Honorary Fellow, Comparative and International Education Society</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Professor, International Education Policy Program</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Affiliate Faculty, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Affiliate Faculty, Latin American Studies Center</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Affiliate Faculty, Consortium on Race, Gender & Ethnicity</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>College of Education</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>University of Maryland</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>College Park, MD 20742</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'><a href="tel:301-405-2212" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2F5597'>301-405-2212</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'><a href="https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2F5597'>https://www.education.umd.edu/directory/steven-klees</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Recent Book: <i>The Conscience of a Progressive</i></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Blog: <a href="https://blog.umd.edu/stevenklees/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2F5597'>https://blog.umd.edu/stevenklees/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#2F5597'>Co-founder: <a href="https://www.thealternativesproject.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2F5597'>https://www.thealternativesproject.org/</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>