Becoming Educated: A Journey of Alienation or Integration?

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Today's journey of becoming educated is one of the alienation of mind from body, thought from action, reason from feeling and emotion, and self from other. Education does not have to be alienating. Our contemporary journey is a function of a definition of the educational realm and an ideal of the educated person that can be rejected. For the sake of the individual and society and, indeed, of the earth itself, an integrative journey must be substituted for our alienating one. The tasks of redefinition and reconstruction can only be accomplished, however, if we acknowledge the workings of gender in educational theory and remain sensitive to them in our practice.

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