Comments on: Starting up EdStartup 101 #EdStartup http://dougclow.org/2012/08/24/edstartup/ New Technology in Higher Education Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:58:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: EdStartup: Getting Started « Doug Clow's Imaginatively-Titled Blog http://dougclow.org/2012/08/24/edstartup/#comment-1838 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:47:14 +0000 http://dougclow.wordpress.com/?p=659#comment-1838 [...] it’s a much more personal and direct one for lots of people, so here’s me. If you want a longer, text-heavy intro, I have one of those over on my blog. This is the light [...]

]]> By: dougclow http://dougclow.org/2012/08/24/edstartup/#comment-1836 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:12:40 +0000 http://dougclow.wordpress.com/?p=659#comment-1836 Thanks for that – a really interesting exploration of marketplace metaphors in education, and very relevant to my thoughts around this. It touches on some of the points I was on about here http://dougclow.org/2011/05/13/the-sinister-sausage-machine/ but is more thorough.

Lots of good points, but one that leapt out at me was how often metaphors about the education of children completely ignore them as agents – in the school context, the customer is always the parent, not the child. This links to the reasons I don’t like to work in compulsory education!

]]> By: Dominik Lukes (@techczech) http://dougclow.org/2012/08/24/edstartup/#comment-1835 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:43:00 +0000 http://dougclow.wordpress.com/?p=659#comment-1835 Many years ago I did a little study of how business metaphors interact with our conceptualization of education. May be relevant to this discussion: http://www.slideshare.net/bohemicus/do-we-have-to-provide-educational-services-when-we-teach

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