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Episodic skill acquisition

Quoting from from postmodern theory of adult learning community

"(...) learners come to adult education classrooms with an inferiority complex perpetuated by the continuous effort to cope with new-skill ignorance and keep pace on the instrumental-learning treadmill. In today’s knowledge economy learners need to understand that knowledge is for now and its facts and how to descriptions are carefully controlled. The learning experience is reduced to episodic skill acquisition (Bauman, 1992). It is a partial and transitional encounter in a cycle of learning for the moment.

This scenario is normalized by the contemporary melding of the social and the economic and by "the increasing importance of the knowledge economy and its associated productivity-increasing technologies in the areas of electronics, computers, communications and robotics". The intensity and rapidity of knowledge production too often make citizen workers and learners easy prey to educational forms serving government and corporate techno-economic agendas that devalue people"

We are interested here in Bauman and this sentence "learning experience is reduced to episodic skill acquisition"... from his "Survival as a social construct" article

Tit for Tat Kids Version

Four Short Strategies for Kid's Schoolyard Games Dillema adapted from The Happy Tutor's required reading post Wining the Game of Tit for Tat

1. Be Nice - Don't be the first to cheat in a game with other kids.

2. Retaliate - if other kids break the rules of the game you stop playing with them then tell everybody that they cheated in a game.

3. Forgive - when other kids who cheated want to play again by the rules then welcome them back to the game.

4. Be Clear - You must be firm and consistent with rules 1, 2 and 3. If you cheat in the game and pretend that you play fair then you are cheating yourself, others and destroying the game. If you don't retaliate you will let the cheaters be in charge of the game. If you don't forgive then you will run out of kids to play with. We are all human. Most of the time we play Nice but sometimes we Lie and Cheat. It happens to everyone. It will happen to you too. Know that one of the rules is to forgive so that others may also forgive you when you Lie and Cheat (remember that before you are forgiven you will be retailated against so don't cheat in the first place. You will be forgiven but not forgotten that you are a cheater and a game wrecker.)

The cure if found if it is found

For our weekness and poverty
For aching hearts and empty souls
For sadness when we can’t go
To better mountains and seasside resorts
For thoughts jammed with darkness
For eyes full of tears
The cure in love is found
If love is found
If love is possible.

For human stinginess and malice
For God’s silent void
For the nothingness occuring
When miracle was promised
For fear of everyday living
From fellow man’s wicked smiles
The rescue in love is found
If love is found
If love is possible.

Here dolls play with people
Here time plays with us
Machines grind our bones
And from us only dust
For life from dust to dust
For first step’s ends unknown
The cure in love is found
If love is found
If love is possible

For nation’s famine and sadness
Empire’s pride and lies
For boredom and police brutality
The might of petty crimes
For nightly heartache and soul sobs
That we wake up in dog eat dog world
The rescue in love is found
If love is found
If love is possible

Loosely Joined Translation of Agnieszka Osiecka poem "Jeżeli jest"