Not Left To Chance

Right now I’ve got 36 posts sitting as drafts. They are all posts from other blogs that I’ve started and quit. I had this idea that blogs should have a theme, this was pre-labels on blogger, but even now I want some theme. I want a thread running through all my posts, and I want it to be obvious. The drafts are thematically scattered, and once they make their way in there will be no telling what this blog is about.

Education is my research area, but lately I’ve been drawn to the problem of homelessness in Vancouver, I could make the link, but it’s not obvious. I mean if four people were to link homelessness and education, I hope there would be four different diagrams.

Here are three links to the current homelessness situation in Vancouver:

1. Taking it to the UN
2. Taking it to the UN and Olympic Committee
3. Taking it to the street

Here are a few notes I’d like to add to some previous posts that will eventually be rewritten, but for now the notes.

Note 1: In the Britney post I used homelessness as an example of an unseen spectacle. And recently there was a front page story on a group of researchers who found that a housing fix could be implemented with the same funding dollars in current circulation. The story is here on the Tyee. There’s something about the front page article here.

Note 2: A while back I wrote about an article that used Lyotard’s term "performativity" as though it were a desirable approach for education. Dewey called for Education as an end in itself. Life as an end in itself is a Utopian Notion. The issue of homelessness and a desire for performative education are linked. Lyotard makes note in 1979 of a system that can solve life’s problems but doesn’t because it won’t improve the systems performance.