Philosophy is a love of wisdom, which cannot be quantified by grading rubrics or systematized by learning outcomes. Why are philosophy professors addicted to academic metrics that commodify learning? (A thread on #ungrading).
@Jessifer says that "grades (and institutional rankings) are currency for a capitalist system that reduces teaching and learning to a mere transaction. Grading is a massive co-ordinated effort to take humans out of the educational process"...
@Jessifer also says that learning outcomes presuppose what is to be determined in the course of collaborative inquiry, & should be replaced by "emergent outcomes" that "are co-created by teachers and students and revised on the fly"...
Why do we still use grades and learning outcomes? The answer lies in the corporatization of the university. Modern universities are bureaucracies that privatize learning as a commodity and demand specific outcomes from students and faculty (the "academic proletariat")...
Professors are positioned as corporate managers who are supposed to manage student performance using checklists and grades, which function to boost productivity while alienating students from the act of production, the product of their labor, and each other...
Students are trained for a life of drudgery in an alienating & exploitative capitalist economy. This "management" pedagogy is radically inconsistent with the classic philosophical pedagogy: the Socratic Method....
Socrates famously stated that he knew “only one thing: that I know nothing.” Predetermined learning outcomes assume in advance what is to be determined in the course of collaborative inquiry. They take curiosity and epistemic humility out of the "philosophical" process...
Grading rubrics attempt to measure something unquantifiable: love of learning for its own sake. The "product" of philosophy is, or should be, a lifelong love of wisdom, rooted in a disposition to approach complex problems with wonder & humility, hoping to make new discoveries...
The capitalist university's bureaucratic model is fundamentally incompatible with the Socratic method as such. Philosophers need to disrupt this system of oppression, not buy into it. #Marxist #Feminism #Antioppressive #Pedagogy #Socrates
Tagging @Helenreflects who works on #wisdom! :)
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