The State and Social Change
Julian Stodd,
Julian Stodd's Learning Blog,
Dec 21, 2021
I guess if you get your theory of change wrong, everything else follows. Normally I like Julian Stodd, but this post just seems to miss the mark (but in useful ways). To change, then. He writes, "Change happens at the intersection of systems: sometimes through negotiation, sometimes neglect, sometimes conflict." I don't think that's even close to right, not even if limited to discussion of social change. Change happens through growth, birth and death. It happens through movement and inertia. Only some change is caused by friction, and that are the change he's describing here. If you describe society solely in terms of friction, it's inevitable that you start talking in terms of power and control and dominance. But there's a lot of change that happens outside that sphere, including most of education, if we would let it.
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