The tension between ...

DRAFT An (e)learning framework for the schools sector.
Consultation Book

VISION
All learners will use ICT confidently and creatively to help develop the skills and knowledge they need to achieve personal goals and to be full participants in the global community.

Please comment on any aspects of the vision

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“personal goals and to be full participants in the global community.”

Dear Pukeko, you are right when you sense that I am tiring of this task, there has to be better stuff to critique, more interesting things to think about …

Ahhh … think I will finish this with the “personal goals/ full participants” stuff

Governments usually have monetarist, social and economic agendas. The learner is necessarily an object that might maximize economic efficiency through his/her ability to maximise productivity.

Hence the allusion to “full participants” bit; the tension between individual selfishness and group altruism; personal selfishness and societal obligation.

My question: What happens if your personal goals do not align with being “full participants in the global community”?